mammothly

adv

mammothly

adv

Etymology From mammoth + -ly.

1

To a mammoth extent; greatly; extremely.

  • At the head of the low-slung, mammothly expensive table, Miles Sterner ran his frequently manicured fingers over two days' worth of stubble.2004, John McCabe, Herding Cats, page 335:
  • The cardinal-v.-ordinal distinction turns out to be mammothly important in Cantorian set theory, […]2010, David Foster Wallace, Everything and More: A Compact History of Infinity, page 192:
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  • 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.2012, Michael J. Shaffer, Counterfactuals and Scientific Realism, unnumbered page:

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