ultracolossal
English
Alternative forms
- ultra colossal
- ultra-colossal
Etymology
ultra- + colossal
Adjective
ultracolossal (comparative more ultracolossal, superlative most ultracolossal)
- (rare) Exceedingly colossal; of utmost colossalness.
- 1936, The Bored Walk, Volume 7, Bored Walk, Indiana University, page 11:
- Buck Rogers, 1999 century A.D. strapped on his super-hydraulic-spacegoer-througher and proceeded to comb his Apollo-like locks with an ultracolossal, overhead-valve Z-ray which gave him that fourth dimension look that all the well-dressed space people have.
- 1942, Ruy Barbosa, Obras Completas de Rui Barbosa, Ministério de Educação e Saúde, page 62:
- Logo, dilatando esse calculo aos oitenta e sete anos e nove meses da existência já extinta do contrato, a decisão dos exorbitou palmarmente dos limites do compromisso, e, tomando, assim, para assento do cálculo da responsabilidade uma base quase quarenta vezes maior do que a convencionada, cometeu um excesso de poderes ultracolossal.
- 1995, Roseanne Williams, Secondhand Bride, Harlequin Books, →ISBN, page 188:
- She wasn't going to sit there and watch "ultracolossal nerve" in action, even though she'd consciously chosen to run the risk of her life.