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supermonstrous

supermonstrous adjective: exceptionally monstrous; of particular monstrosity or monstrousness.

Adjective

supermonstrous (comparative more supermonstrous, superlative most supermonstrous)

  1. (rare) Exceptionally monstrous; of particular monstrosity or monstrousness.
    • I never have seen a monster among them, but my neighbors report a supermonstrous one, and so I leave the question open.1889, Charles Conrad Abbott, A Naturalist's Rambles about Home, D. Appleton and Company, page 361
    • Fed by years of propaganda and a firm belief in the superiority of Southern civilization — and convinced that only a supermonstrous army could defeat their gallant sons and husbands — Southerners also tended to exaggerate the destructiveness of the Union forces.2000, Marion Brunson Lucas, Sherman and the Burning of Columbia, University of South Carolina Press, →ISBN, page 135

Forms of supermonstrous

comparativemore supermonstrous
superlativemost supermonstrous
alternative formsuper-monstrous

Origin of supermonstrous

From super- + monstrous.

Questions about supermonstrous

What does supermonstrous mean?
Supermonstrous means exceptionally monstrous; of particular monstrosity or monstrousness.
What part of speech is supermonstrous?
Supermonstrous is an adjective.

Words near supermonstrous in the dictionary

  1. supermonkey
  2. supermonkeys
  3. supermonogamy
  4. supermonster
  5. supermonsters
  6. supermonstrous
  7. supermonstrously
  8. supermontage
  9. supermontages
  10. supermoon
  11. supermoons

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