supercalifragilistic
Syllables: su·per·cal·ifrag·ilis·ticUK/ˌsuːpəˌkælɨˌfɹæd͡ʒɨˈlɪstɪk/US/ˌsupɚˌkælɪ̈ˌfɹæd͡ʒɪ̈ˈlɪstɪk/
supercalifragilistic is the clipping of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Meaning of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious
Adjective
supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (not comparable)
- Fantastic, marvellous, wonderful.
- I believe I am the sole originator of it, or at least, I have my own interpretation of its pronunciation. "Supercaliflawjalisticexpialadoshus" is the word to which I refer. […] It implies all that is grand, great, glorious, splendid, superb, wonderful,—well, all that is...Ben Zimmer (23 April 2012), “Word Routes: Tracking Down the Roots of a ‘Super’ Word”, in Thinkmap Visual Thesaurus
- Synonyms:
- awesome, based, beat, beatific, bewildering, blissful, celestial, delightful, divine, enchanting
Origin of supercalifragilistic
Shortening of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
Words formed from supercalifragilistic
- supercalifragilistical
- supercalifragilistically
- supercalifragilisticness
- supercalifragilisticity
Words that rhyme with supercalifragilistic
- artistic
- autistic
- characteristic
- atavistic
- ballistic
- heuristic
- linguistic
- pessimistic
- realistic
- cystic
- futuristic
- histic
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- holistic
- hypocoristic
- mystic
- optimistic
- activistic
- allistic
- altruistic
- cannibalistic
- criminalistic
- economistic
- epiphenomenalistic
- fistic
- heteroantagonistic
- hubristic
- hybristic
- infinitistic
- isoantagonistic
- jingoistic
- journalistic
- librettistic
- malistic
- mistic
- navalistic
- paralinguistic
- pistic
- retrofuturistic
- spiritistic
- surrealistic
- unartistic
Questions about supercalifragilistic
- What is supercalifragilistic the clipping of?
- Supercalifragilistic is the clipping of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious.
- How do you pronounce supercalifragilistic?
- Supercalifragilistic is pronounced /ˌsuːpəˌkælɨˌfɹæd͡ʒɨˈlɪstɪk/ (UK).
Words near supercalifragilistic in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: supercalifragilistic (page history and authors); supercalifragilisticexpialidocious (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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