Dictionary

superadd en · VERB

Pronunciation

• /ˌsuːpəɹˈæd/
• (Southern-England) audio

Etymology

From super- + add.

Meanings

1. (transitive) To add on top of a previous addition.
   • Locke's claim that God may superadd to matter a faculty of thinking allows us to usefully relabel our problem[…] 2007, Lex Newman, The Cambridge companion to Locke's "Essay concerning human understanding":
   • To our antiquarian interest in poor Jocelin and his Convent, where the whole aspect of existence, the whole dialect, of thought, of speech, of activity, is so obsolete, strange, long-vanished, there now superadds itself a mild glow of human interest for Abbot Samson […] 1843 April, Thomas Carlyle, “Abbot Samson”, in Past and Present, American edition, Boston, Mass.: Charles C[offin] Little and James Brown, published 1843, →OCLC, book II (The Ancient Monk):

Forms

Deriveds

superaddition · superaddedly

Translations (3)

ca sobreafegir (to add on top of a previous addition) · fi lisätä (to add on top of a previous addition) · fi vielä lisätä (to add on top of a previous addition)