surabundant
surabundant adjective: overly abundant; superabundant.
Adjective
surabundant (comparative more surabundant, superlative most surabundant)
- Overly abundant; superabundant.
- In the terminology of collegia, for which there is surabundant evidence, modifiers in titles are adjectives proper and usually in the -arius form — e.g. exoneratores calciarii, fabri soliarii baxiarii, mensores et mercatores frumentarii.1976, Nicholas Horsfall, “The Collegium Poetarum”, in Bulletin of the Institute of Classical Studies, number 23, London: Institute of Classical Studies, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 90
- The idea of the horrid incest he contemplated evidently added fuel to his excitement, and produced within him a surabundant [originally: "superabundant"] sensation of lustful impatience, which exhibited itself no less in his inflamed countenance than in the siffened and erected shaft which now...1983 [1887], Anonymous [Stanislas de Rhodes], The Autobiography of a Flea, New York, N.Y.: Carroll & Graf Publishers, Inc., →ISBN, page 76
Forms of surabundant
| comparative | more surabundant |
|---|---|
| superlative | most surabundant |
Origin of surabundant
From sur- (“variant of super-”) + abundant; compare French surabondant (“superabundant”).
Words formed from surabundant
- surabundantly
Questions about surabundant
- What does surabundant mean?
- Surabundant means overly abundant; superabundant.
- What part of speech is surabundant?
- Surabundant is an adjective.
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