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hyperlegible en · ADJ

Etymology

From hyper- + legible.

Meanings

  1. Very easily legible.
    • Ours is an era of plentiful but repetitive erotic writing, an age of “copper-lidded eyes” and “green eyes flecked with yellow,” of a “backbreaking orchid” and an “orchid boat,” of hyperlegible Freudian metaphor (silos and fountains, copper pipe and cowboy hats) and its counterpart, the forensic, literal overcorrection (aureoles, Formica countertops and AA batteries). 2008 March 16, Dan Chiasson, “Hot or Not”, in New York Times:

Forms

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most hyperlegible Degree=Sup lexicographic
more hyperlegible Degree=Cmp lexicographic