supercolossally

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English

Etymology

From supercolossal +‎ -ly.

Adverb

supercolossally (comparative more supercolossally, superlative most supercolossally)

  1. In a supercolossal manner.
    • 1935, Advertising & Selling, Volume 26, Issues 1-7, M.C. Robbins, page 25:
      To apologize supercolossally is the gift of few.
    • 1954, Midwest Shipper's Advisory Board, Proceedings, page 20:
      Human wants are insatiable, and American wants are supercolossally insatiable.
    • 1992, Leopold Damrosch, The Profession of Eighteenth-century Literature: Reflections on an Institution, University of Wisconsin Press, →ISBN, page 38:
      In his writings he created a special language, which Carey McIntosh in The Choice of Life has called “supercolossally splendid” and a special voice, which McIntosh whimsically describes as "a bardic-pathetic indoctrinating appartus".