superextreme

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adjective

Exceptionally extreme; of particular extremeness or extremity.

Scrabble 23

Meanings

adjectivesuperextreme (comparative more superextreme, superlative most superextreme)

comparative more superextreme · superlative most superextreme

  1. not comparablerareBeyond or greater than extreme.

    Working under such limited circumstances it then is pure chance when we spot a chemical that is not superextreme in its harmful potency.

    1975, Jacqueline Verrett, Jean Carper, Eating May Be Hazardous to Your Health, Anchor Press, Doubleday, →ISBN, page 48
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    Were it not for this absorption, the full strength of ultraviolet radiation alone would destroy all living things on earth by what could be referred to roughly as a superextreme sunburn.

    1957, Charles Ira Coombs, Rockets, Missiles, and Moons, Morrow, page 218

    As in any other case, nationalism has not grown out of nothing here. It shoudl be stressed once again that the years of stagnation have left their mark. During the war, for instance, under superextreme conditions, people could go without sleep for days on end.

    1988, Mikhail Shatrov, Vladlen Loginov, Sergeĭ Vladimirovich Kuleshov, The Revolution Continues: Going Back to Lenin, Novosti Press Agency Publishing House, page 43

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*úp
  2. Proto-Indo-European*upér
  3. Proto-Italic*super
  4. Latinsuper
  5. Latinsuper-
  6. Englishsuper-
  7. Englishextreme
  8. Englishsuperextreme

From super- + extreme.

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APA

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Chicago

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