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supertremendous en · ADJ

Etymology

From super- + tremendous.

Meanings

1. (rare) Exceptionally tremendous; of particular tremendousness.
   • Blessed with a supertremendous memory, Prof. Rainville continually amazes students with feats of mental gymnastics. 1942, The Michigan Technic, Volume 61, University of Michigan, College of Engineering, page 24:
   • These holy things are to be adored with that worship of latria which does not belong to anything else except the superimmense and supertremendous hypostasis of the divine Word (in Ps 133:3). 1987, Godfrey Anstruther, Opening the Scrolls: Essays in Catholic History in Honour of Godfrey Anstruther, Downside Abbey, →ISBN, page 41:
   • How much is too much? How fast is too fast? At one time a Federal judge was something “supertremendous." 1977, United States. Congress. House. Committee on the Judiciary. Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice, State of the Judiciary and Access to Justice Hearings Before the Subcommittee on Courts, Civil Liberties, and the Administration of Justice of the Committee on the Judiciary, House of Representatives, 95th Congress, First Session, U.S. Government Printing Office, page 234:
   • The product is supertremendous. Thus, a tiny bit of matter can be converted into a tremendous amount of energy. In theory, any kind of matter will do. It need not be uranium or other rare substances. 1948, Bernard Jaffe, Herbert Spencer Zim, William Riley Burnett, New World of Science, Silver Burdett Company, page 292:

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