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ultraexcessive en · ADJ

Pronunciation

• /ˈʌltɹəɪkˈsɛsɪv/

Etymology

From ultra- + excessive.

Meanings

1. (rare) Extremely excessive.
   • When yttrium was added in the form of a water solution of a salt and alkali hydrolysis was used the condition for ultraexcessive water hydrolysis was realized. 2009, Glass and Ceramics, page 330:
   • Afterward we proceeded down the tawdry Las vegas strip to the ultraexcessive Caesar's Palace Hotel, a sprawling place that seeks to the ancient Rome into twenty-eighth century. 2013, Chase Untermeyer, When Things Went Right: The Dawn of the Reagan-Bush Administration, Texas A&M University Press, →ISBN, page 182:
   • As an old and accustomed traveller, as fond of speedy travel as anyone, and not myself, at times, above pottering away an extra half-an-hour in town and making up time en route, my firm impression is that the necessity, the importance of this ultraexcessive rapidity of travel is a mistake, which is becoming one of increasing gravity. 1906, The World's Paper Trade Review, Volume 46, Stonhill & Gillis, page 12:

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