supermagnificent

English

Alternative forms

Etymology

super- + magnificent

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): /suːpəɹˈmæɡˈnɪfəsənt/

Adjective

supermagnificent (comparative more supermagnificent, superlative most supermagnificent)

  1. (rare) Exceptionally magnificent; of tremendous magnificence.
    • 1923, Saintsbury George, A Second Scrap Book, page 263:
      At any rate, if it is, Mr. Tupman’s celebrated practice of referring suppliants to his friends for clothes and money was supermagnificent.
    • 1936, Henri Logeman, Sales Management,Volume 39, Dartnell Corporation, page 292:
      It may publish a portfolio of a dozen supermagnificent industrial photographs. Or it may devote two-thirds of an issue to the newly armed Armies of Europe or to a candid tour of Hollywood.
    • 1949, Ralph Sylvester, Fred Winchell Sparks, Old Lands: A Chorography of the Eastern Peloponnese, McGraw-Hill Book Company, page 299:
      Evidently we have here a means of putting the mathematician's armchair theory to the test of experience on a supermagnificent scale.
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