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hyperqualified

hyperqualified adjective: very highly qualified.

Adjective

hyperqualified (comparative more hyperqualified, superlative most hyperqualified)

  1. Very highly qualified.
    • For months, the congressman has cultivated the rural areas where he lost in 2003, “witnessing” in remote Pentecostal churches, neutralizing his image of being hyperqualified — head of the state health department at 24, head of the university system at 28 and under secretary for the Department of...2007 October 19, Adam Nossiter, “An Improbable Favorite Emerges in Cajun Country”, in New York Times

Forms of hyperqualified

comparativemore hyperqualified
superlativemost hyperqualified

Origin of hyperqualified

From hyper- + qualified.

Questions about hyperqualified

What does hyperqualified mean?
Hyperqualified means very highly qualified.
What part of speech is hyperqualified?
Hyperqualified is an adjective.

Words near hyperqualified in the dictionary

  1. hyperpyrexic
  2. hyperpyron
  3. hyperpyrons
  4. hyperquadric
  5. hyperquadrics
  6. hyperqualified
  7. hyperquantum
  8. hyperquark
  9. hyperquarks
  10. hyperracial
  11. hyperracialized

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