mammothly

mammothly

English

Etymology

mammoth +‎ -ly

Adverb

mammothly (not comparable)

1. To a mammoth extent; greatly; extremely.
   • 2004, John McCabe, Herding Cats, page 335:

     At the head of the low-slung, mammothly expensive table, Miles Sterner ran his frequently manicured fingers over two days' worth of stubble.

   • 2010, David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, page 192:

     The cardinal-v.-ordinal distinction turns out to be mammothly important in Cantorian set theory, […]

   • 2012, Michael J. Shaffer, Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism, unnumbered page:

     We are finite beings who, from our very beginnings, have been faced – both individually and collectively – with the task of understanding a mammothly complex world.