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superstraight

superstraight adjective: extremely straight (in various senses).

Adjective

superstraight (comparative more superstraight, superlative most superstraight)

  1. Extremely straight (in various senses).
    • For that taped session I assembled a group of eight serious and articulate people, including one lesbian, one homosexual, a superstraight man and woman, and four people from the sexual middle.1972, Martin Shepard, A Psychiatrist's Head, page 56
    • A few years before, a friend in alternative filmmaking asked Eliza to do a bit role as a superstraight lady executive, and after coolly studying Eliza's hairdo, paid for her to go to the hairdresser and get a beehive.1990, Michigan Quarterly Review, page 559

Forms of superstraight

comparativemore superstraight
superlativemost superstraight

Origin of superstraight

From super- + straight.

Questions about superstraight

What does superstraight mean?
Superstraight means extremely straight (in various senses).
What part of speech is superstraight?
Superstraight is an adjective.

Words near superstraight in the dictionary

  1. superstore
  2. superstores
  3. superstorm
  4. superstorms
  5. superstr.
  6. superstraight
  7. superstrain
  8. superstrained
  9. superstraining
  10. superstrains
  11. superstrata

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