oversublime en · ADJ
Etymology
From over- + sublime.
Meanings
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Excessively sublime.
In the heady early eighties, things got a little oversublime, Reader's Digest suggesting that thousands of missing children are murdered each year (it's closer to one hundred) […]
1998, James Russell Kincaid, Erotic Innocence: The Culture of Child Molesting, page 78:
Forms
| Spelling | Features | Labels | Source |
|---|---|---|---|
| more oversublime | Degree=Cmp | lexicographic | |
| most oversublime | Degree=Sup | lexicographic |