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Supermannish

adj

Etymology

From Superman + -ish.

  1. inherited from *mon-✻ — “human being, man”
  2. inherited from *mann-✻ — “man”
  3. inherited from *mann✻
  4. inherited from mann — “human being, person, man”
  5. inherited from man
  6. prefixed as superman — “super- + man”
  7. suffixed as supermannish — “Superman + ish”

Definitions

  1. Resembling or characteristic of a Superman or specifically DC Comics’ Superman.

    • This verdict was, in untechnical language, an effective reproof for “Supermannish” methods of financiering.
    • The two chief characters are rather “Supermannish,” and that demands super-actors; […]

  2. Resembling or characteristic of a superman.

    • There were seals on the rocks, and others on the beach, though their silly faces gave no evidence of the supermannish qualities attributed to them by Mr. E. V. Lucas.
    • It is very probable that Nietzsche frequently felt himself so supermannish as to regard the clouds of earth over which he had to step in order to keep his head in the clouds.
    • Her influence has been held supermannish—daimonic or demonic—under the prevalence of ideals monastic, chivalric, or platonic; […]

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

No curated loop yet for Supermannish. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA