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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

mammothly en · ADV

Etymology

From mammoth + -ly.

Meanings

  1. (not-comparable) To a mammoth extent; greatly; extremely.
    • We are finite beings who, from our very beginnings, have been faced – both individually and collectively – with the task of understanding a mammothly complex world. 2012, Michael J. Shaffer, Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism, unnumbered page:
    • At the head of the low-slung, mammothly expensive table, Miles Sterner ran his frequently manicured fingers over two days' worth of stubble. 2004, John McCabe, Herding Cats, page 335:
    • The cardinal-v.-ordinal distinction turns out to be mammothly important in Cantorian set theory, […] 2010, David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, page 192: