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supervacaneous | supervacaneously |

As an adjective supervacaneous

is added above what is (l) or (l); (l), (l).

As an adverb supervacaneously is

in a way that is supervacaneous; needlessly; redundantly.

supervacaneous

English

Adjective

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  • Added above what is (l) or (l); (l), (l).
  • * 1915 , (George Wharton James), Our American Woodlands :
    • It is an awful thing to find your efforts supervacaneous when you are so far away from home and friends, sympathy, and help.
  • * 1960 , (Nancy Mitford), Don't Tell Alfred :
  • *:‘It became all the more important for me to get out because my son Foster, aged now fifteen, is only ten points below genius and this genius would have been unavailing and supervacaneous , in other words wasted, behind the iron curtain.’
  • * 1972 , Aiko It? and Graeme Wilson, translating , (I Am a Cat) (2002 combined edition, , ISBN 080483265X), volume one, chapter III, page 152:
    • If I were simply to discuss noses in disregard of their relation to other entities, then I would declare without fear of contradiction that the nose of Mrs. Goldfield is superb, superlative, and, though possibly supervacaneous , one well-placed to win first prize at any exhibition of nasal development which might be organized by the long-nosed goblins on Mount Kurama.

    Synonyms

    * (l), (l), (l), (l) (obsolete), (l) (obsolete)

    Derived terms

    * (l), (l)

    References

    * “ supervacaneous, a.'']” listed in the '' [2nd ed., 1989

    supervacaneously

    English

    Adverb

    (more)
  • In a way that is supervacaneous; needlessly; redundantly.
  • * 1879 , William T, Harris, The Journal of Speculative Philosophy , Volume XIII,
    • To Kant, the multiple connected with the house is quite as objective as the multiple connected with the ship ; but that he attributes to the category of quantity, and not, laboriously and supervacaneously , like Schopenhauer, to the various causal relations of the eye in movement.