hypercolossal

English

Etymology

From hyper- +‎ colossal.

Adjective

hypercolossal (comparative more hypercolossal, superlative most hypercolossal)

  1. (rare) Extraordinarily colossal.
    • 1982, Edward Estlin Cummings, Selected Letters of E. E. Cummings‎[1], Deutsch, →ISBN, page 216:
      enfin: please believe that Patchin's Master & Mistress most deeply appreciate Your & Alice's greatly generous offer of assistance in the finding of a Nortonian de luxe hypercolossal mansion.
    • 1996, Barry Ahearn, Ezra Pound, Edward Estlin Cummings, Pound/Cummings: The Correspondence of Ezra Pound and E.E. Cummings‎[2], University of Michigan Press, →ISBN, page 91:
      Bikus quite impractically everyone both of us ever knew has gone to most hypercolossal not to say superprodigious trouble re we.
    • 2014 October 20, Megan Mcardle, “They Say You Should Break This Grammar Rule”, in www.bloomberg.com‎[3], archived from the original on 16 February 2021:
      The attempted abolition of singular "they" was a hypercolossal blunder by 18th- and 19th-century fusspots who thought grammar should follow the same sort of simple rules as a steam engine, that Latin and Greek grammars were a good model for English diction, and that in public-facing activity, men absorbed the women in their circle like a sort of social sponge.
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