mammothly

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

mammoth +‎ -ly

Adverb[edit]

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.
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