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surabundant

surabundant adjective: overly abundant; superabundant.

Adjective

surabundant (comparative more surabundant, superlative most surabundant)

  1. (rare) 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

comparativemore surabundant
superlativemost surabundant

Origin of surabundant

From sur- (“variant of super-”) + abundant; compare French surabondant (“superabundant”).

Words formed from surabundant

Questions about surabundant

What does surabundant mean?
Surabundant means overly abundant; superabundant.
What part of speech is surabundant?
Surabundant is an adjective.

Words near surabundant in the dictionary

  1. sur-names
  2. Sur.
  3. sura
  4. Surabaya
  5. Surabhi
  6. surabundant
  7. Surace
  8. Suraces
  9. suradanni
  10. suraddition
  11. suradditions

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