superextra en · ADJ
Pronunciation
- /ˈs(j)uːpə(ɹ)ˈɛkstɹə/ (UK)
- /ˈsupɚˈɛkstɹə/ (US)
Etymology
From super- + extra.
Meanings
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(not-comparable, rare) Superior and extra.
It requires not superextra intelligence to see this.
1847, George Truesdale Flanders, Review of Alexander Hall's Universalism Against Itself, E. C. Church, page 68:Superextra brand of glass. Rare, such glass. Carbonate of lead, you know.
1912, Arthur Swazey, Cornelius Van Santvoord, Benjamin Woodbridge Dwight, J. H. Trowbridge, William Cunningham Gray, Francis Landey Patton, Nolan Rice Best, The Continent, McCormick Publishing Company, page 1530:Not, of course, that these are anything superextra in the way of atrocities when the Hun really gets going.
1918, The Bystander, Volume 60, page 144: