Adjective: superexcellent
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more superexcellent |
| Superlative | most superexcellent |
Sample Sentences
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…[Y]our Latin poems, which, in my opinion, both for invention and elocution, are verie delicate and superexcellent. [1579, Edmund Spenser, “The Shepheardes Calender”, in J. C., editor, The Works of Edmund Spenser, New edition, Philadelphia: Willis P. Hazard, 190 Chestnut Street, published 1857, page 370:]
Adjectives inflected like superexcellent
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
1. Etymology tree
2. Proto-Indo-European *úp
3. Proto-Indo-European *-er
4. Proto-Indo-European *upér
5. Proto-Italic *super
6. Latin super
7. Latin super-lbor.
8. English super-
9. English excellent
10. English superexcellent
11. From super- + excellent.