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doubleplus-

doubleplus- prefix: an intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to extremely.

Prefix

doubleplus-

  1. An intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to extremely.
    • The main prefixes in the controlled language include “un-“, “plus-“, “doubleplus-“, “ante-” and “post-“. […] “Plus-” and “doubleplus-” are both intensifiers that replace words of different extremities, and the words very and extremely respectively.2020 August 8, Zui, “Controlled Languages — Newspeak”, in The Language Closet

Origin of doubleplus-

From double + plus-. Coined by George Orwell in 1949 as part of the Newspeak in his novel Nineteen Eighty-Four.

Questions about doubleplus-

What does doubleplus- mean?
Doubleplus- means an intensifying prefix, roughly equivalent to extremely.
What part of speech is doubleplus-?
Doubleplus- is a prefix.

Words near doubleplus- in the dictionary

  1. doublepacks
  2. doublepark
  3. doubleparked
  4. doubleparking
  5. doubleparks
  6. doubleplus-
  7. doubleplusgood
  8. doubleplusungood
  9. doublequote
  10. doublequotes
  11. doubler

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