hypercolossal
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Adjective
[edit]hypercolossal (comparative more hypercolossal, superlative most hypercolossal)
- (rare) Extraordinarily colossal.
- 1996, Barry Ahearn, Ezra Pound, Edward Estlin Cummings, Pound/Cummings: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings[2], University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 91:
- Bikus quite impractically everyone both of us ever knew has gone to most hypercolossal not to say superprodigious trouble re we.
- 2014 October 20, Megan Mcardle, “They Say You Should Break This Grammar Rule”, in www.bloomberg.com[3], archived from the original on 16 February 2021:
- The attempted abolition of singular "they" was a hypercolossal blunder by 18th- and 19th-century fusspots who thought grammar should follow the same sort of simple rules as a steam engine, that Latin and Greek grammars were a good model for English diction, and that in public-facing activity, men absorbed the women in their circle like a sort of social sponge.