superadd

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/ˌsuːpəɹˈæd/

verb

To add on top of a previous addition.

Scrabble 12

Meanings

verbsuperadd (third-person singular simple present superadds, present participle superadding, simple past and past participle superadded)

present singular third person superadds · participle present superadding · participle past superadded · past superadded

  1. transitiveTo add on top of a previous addition.

    Locke's claim that God may superadd to matter a faculty of thinking allows us to usefully relabel our problem[…]

    2007, Lex Newman, The Cambridge companion to Locke's "Essay concerning human understanding"
    1 more example

    To our antiquarian interest in poor Jocelin and his Convent, where the whole aspect of existence, the whole dialect, of thought, of speech, of activity, is so obsolete, strange, long-vanished, there now superadds itself a mild glow of human interest for Abbot Samson […]

    1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk)

Origin

Translations

Catalan sobreafegir
  • sobreafegirto add on top of a previous addition
Finnish lisätä, vielä lisätä
  • lisätäto add on top of a previous addition
  • vielä lisätäto add on top of a previous addition

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Cite this entry
APA

superadd. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superadd

MLA

“superadd.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superadd. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “superadd,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/superadd.

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