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hyperspecific

hyperspecific adjective: very highly specific.

Adjective

hyperspecific (comparative more hyperspecific, superlative most hyperspecific)

  1. Very highly specific.
    • He landed not on coherent memories but on hyperspecific details – the salty weight of the air at sea, the length of Victoire’s eyelashes, the hitch in Ramy’s voice just before he burst out into full-bellied laughter.2022, R. F. Kuang, Babel, HarperVoyager, page 534

Forms of hyperspecific

comparativemore hyperspecific
superlativemost hyperspecific

Origin of hyperspecific

From hyper- + specific.

Questions about hyperspecific

What does hyperspecific mean?
Hyperspecific means very highly specific.
What part of speech is hyperspecific?
Hyperspecific is an adjective.

Words near hyperspecific in the dictionary

  1. hyperspecializations
  2. hyperspecialize
  3. hyperspecialized
  4. hyperspecializes
  5. hyperspecializing
  6. hyperspecific
  7. hyperspecificity
  8. hyperspeckled
  9. hyperspeckling
  10. hyperspectral
  11. hyperspectrally

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