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hyperscholastic

hyperscholastic adjective: very highly scholastic.

Adjective

hyperscholastic (comparative more hyperscholastic, superlative most hyperscholastic)

  1. Very highly scholastic.
    • And he himself will never be free of the objection that Ulysses is too precious, overcalculated, overcultivated, overloaded with knowledge, hyperscholastic, too subtle...1997, John D. Caputo, The prayers and tears of Jacques Derrida: religion without religion, page 258

Forms of hyperscholastic

comparativemore hyperscholastic
superlativemost hyperscholastic

Origin of hyperscholastic

From hyper- + scholastic.

Questions about hyperscholastic

What does hyperscholastic mean?
Hyperscholastic means very highly scholastic.
What part of speech is hyperscholastic?
Hyperscholastic is an adjective.

Words near hyperscholastic in the dictionary

  1. hyperscat
  2. hyperschema
  3. hyperschemas
  4. hyperschemata
  5. hyperschematia
  6. hyperscholastic
  7. hyperscrupulosity
  8. hyperscrupulous
  9. hyperseasonal
  10. hyperseasonality
  11. hyperseborrhea

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