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hypercolossal en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + colossal.

Meanings

1. (rare) Extraordinarily colossal; supercolossal.
   • The attempted abolition of singular "they" was a hypercolossal blunder by 18th- and 19th-century fusspots who thought grammar should follow the same sort of simple rules as a steam engine, that Latin and Greek grammars were a good model for English diction, and that in public-facing activity, men absorbed the women in their circle like a sort of social sponge. 2014 October 20, Megan Mcardle, “They Say You Should Break This Grammar Rule”, in www.bloomberg.com, archived from the original on 16 Feb 2021:
   • Bikus quite impractically everyone both of us ever knew has gone to most hypercolossal not to say superprodigious trouble re we. 1996, Barry Ahearn, Ezra Pound, Edward Estlin Cummings, Pound/Cummings: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings, University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 91:
   • enfin: please believe that Patchin's Master & Mistress most deeply appreciate Your & Alice's greatly generous offer of assistance in the finding of a Nortonian de luxe hypercolossal mansion. 1982, Edward Estlin Cummings, Selected Letters of E. E. Cummings, Deutsch, →ISBN, page 216:
   • Hollywood --Some time late this year --perhaps, appropriately, on Dec. 7- Walt Disney is going to unwind the most stupendous, hypercolossal aviation picture ever made. 1942, Escanaba Daily Press, From Sin to Wholeness, Associated Press Leased Wire News Service, page 4:

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