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hyperdiabolical

hyperdiabolical adjective: extraordinarily diabolical.

Adjective

hyperdiabolical (comparative more hyperdiabolical, superlative most hyperdiabolical)

  1. Extraordinarily diabolical.
    • This is in him a hyperbolical, and almost a hyperdiabolical impudence, to make the bread of sin equal with the 'bread of life,' and to ascribe unto it potentiam virtutis and virtutem dulcedinis,--- that it is bread, and sweet bread, nourishing and well-tasted.1861, Thomas Adams, The Works of Thomas Adams, James Nichol, page 206
    • Their exterior did not please her any more than their minds. Insignificant or deformed, earthy or apoplectic, with bilious or blotched faces, blue when shaved, marked with deep wrinkles, rough wild hair, muscular, hairy arms did not charm her. The excessive delicacy of her temperament made her feel...1901, F.C. de Sumichrast, The Complete Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 6 (IV), Bigelow, Smith and Company, page 44

Examples of hyperdiabolical in a sentence

  • Although Musidora was eighteen, she was not really a woman, she was not even a girl, she was a child, utterly corrupt, it is true, and concealing within her frail form hyperdiabolical wickedness.1901, F.C. de Sumichrast, The Complete Works of Theophile Gautier, Volume 6 (IV), Bigelow, Smith and Company, page 44:
  • Members of Parliament wept at their providential deliverance from what one overwrought minister described as ‘hyperdiabolical devilishness’.1996-1997, Mark Alan Kishlansky (Mark A. Kishlansky), A Monarchy Transformed, Penguin Books, →ISBN, page 67:

Forms of hyperdiabolical

comparativemore hyperdiabolical
superlativemost hyperdiabolical

Origin of hyperdiabolical

From hyper- + diabolical.

Questions about hyperdiabolical

What does hyperdiabolical mean?
Hyperdiabolical means extraordinarily diabolical.
How do you use hyperdiabolical in a sentence?
Although Musidora was eighteen, she was not really a woman, she was not even a girl, she was a child, utterly corrupt, it is true, and concealing within her frail form hyperdiabolical wickedness.
What part of speech is hyperdiabolical?
Hyperdiabolical is an adjective.

Words near hyperdiabolical in the dictionary

  1. hyperdetailed
  2. hyperdeterminant
  3. hyperdeterminants
  4. hyperdeveloped
  5. hyperdevelopment
  6. hyperdiabolical
  7. hyperdialectalism
  8. hyperdialectalisms
  9. hyperdialectism
  10. hyperdialectisms
  11. hyperdiamond

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