supermax
supermax noun: a prison with the highest possible level of security.
Noun
supermax (plural supermaxes)
- A prison with the highest possible level of security.
- As he sits today in Supermax, Powers had amputated his fingers, a testicle, his scrotum and his earlobes, has cut his Achilles tendon, and had tried several times to kill himself.2012 June 18, Andrew Cohen, “An American Gulag: Descending into Madness at Supermax”, in The Atlantic, retrieved 11 Jun 2023
Adjective
supermax (not comparable)
- Being, or pertaining to, such a prison.
- Kaczynski had been held in the federal supermax prison in Florence, Colorado, since May 1998, when he was sentenced to four life sentences plus 30 years for a campaign of terror that set universities nationwide on edge.2023 June 11, “‘Unabomber’ Ted Kaczynski died by suicide in prison – report”, in The Guardian, →ISSN
- Synonyms:
- ADX
Synonyms of supermax
Forms of supermax
| plural | supermaxes |
|---|
Origin of supermax
From super- + max (as in maximum security prison).
Questions about supermax
- What does supermax mean?
- Supermax means a prison with the highest possible level of security.
- What part of speech is supermax?
- Supermax can be a noun or an adjective.
- What is the plural of supermax?
- The plural of supermax is supermaxes.
Words near supermax in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: supermax (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.
Last updated:
Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-Flame, not lame-supermax.wav.
Cite this entry: “supermax.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/supermax. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.