- a super cook
- a super atomic bomb
- super secrecy
We had a super time.
“Yes, I'd love to come.” “Super! I'll see you later.”
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First Known Use: 1842
in the meaning defined at sense 1a
See Words from the same yearastronomical (also astronomic), bumper, colossal, cosmic (also cosmical), elephantine, enormous, galactic, gargantuan, giant, gigantic, grand, herculean, heroic (also heroical), huge, humongous (also humungous), immense, jumbo, king-size (or king-sized), leviathan, mammoth, massive, mega, mighty, monster, monstrous, monumental, mountainous, oceanic, planetary, prodigious, supersize, supersized, titanic, tremendous, vast, vasty, walloping, whacking, whopping;
bantam, bitty, diminutive, infinitesimal, little bitty, micro, microminiature, microscopic (also microscopical), midget, miniature, minuscule, minute, pocket, pygmy, teensy, teensy-weensy, teeny, teeny-weeny, tiny, wee;
little, mini, petite, pint-size (or pint-sized), puny, small, smallish, undersized (also undersize);
big, bulky, considerable, extensive, good, goodly, great, gross, handsome, hefty, hulking, largish, major, outsize (also outsized), overgrown, oversize (or oversized), sizable (or sizeable), substantial, tidy, voluminous;
august, formidable, grandiose, imposing, lofty, majestic;
cavernous, monolithic, overwhelming, staggering, stupendous, towering;
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1838
my computer is super slow this morning
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First Known Use: 1946
in the meaning defined at sense 1
See Words from the same yearachingly, almighty, archly, awful, awfully, badly, beastly, blisteringly, bone, colossally, dang, deadly, desperately, eminently, enormously, especially, ever, exceedingly (also exceeding), extra, extremely, fabulously, fantastically, far, fiercely, filthy, frightfully, full, greatly, heavily, highly, hugely, immensely, incredibly, intensely, jolly, majorly, mightily, mighty, mortally, most, much, particularly, passing, real, really, right, roaring, seriously, severely, so, sore, sorely, spanking, specially, such, supremely, surpassingly, terribly, that, thumping, too, uncommonly, vastly, very, vitally, way, whacking, wicked, wildly;
absolutely, altogether, completely, downright, entirely, flat-out, fully, positively, purely, radically, thoroughly, totally, utterly, wholly;
exceptionally, notably, remarkably;
considerably, extensively, significantly, substantially;
appreciably, discernibly, markedly, noticeably, obviously, palpably, plainly, visibly;
astronomically, grandly, monstrously, monumentally;
a lot, as all get-out, good and;
: bigger, better, or more important than others of the same kind
: superior in position or rank
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