Wackest vs Backest - What's the difference?
wackest | backest |
(wack)
Egregious
(From hip-hop slang) bad (as in not good), inauthentic, of an inferior quality, contemptible, lacking integrity, inauthentic, lame, or strange.
(slang) crazy, mad, insane
(phonetics) (back)
:: He set up two anchor points for his system using articulatory criteria: cardinal vowel 1 was the highest, frontest vowel that one could make without the sound becoming a consonant, and cardinal vowel 5 was the lowest, backest vowel one could produce without pulling the tongue back into the pharynx.
As adjectives the difference between wackest and backest
is that wackest is superlative of wack while backest is superlative of back.wackest
English
Adjective
(head)wack
English
Adjective
(er)- Every record they ever made was straight-up wack .
Synonyms
* wackjob * wackobackest
English
Adjective
(-)- Martin J. Ball and Nicole Müller (2005), Phonetics for communication disorders , p. 56: