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Definition: HYPER- |
HYPER-1. A prefix equivalent to super- or per-; as hyperoxide, or peroxide. [Obs.] See Per-. 2. A prefix signifying over, above; as, hyperphysical, hyperthyrion; also, above measure, abnormally great, excessive; as, hyperaemia, hyperbola, hypercritical, hypersecretion. |
Etymology: Hyper- \Hy"per-\ [from Greek expression "ype`r over, above; akin to Latin super, English over. See Over, and compare to Super-.]. (references) |
| Domain | Definition |
Mining | A prefix from the Greek meaning over, above, or abnormally great. (references) |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
Crosswords: HYPER- |
| Etymologies containing "HYPER-": Super-. (references) |
| Non-English Usage: "HYPER-" is also a word in the following languages with English translations in parentheses. Czech (hyper-, ultra), Swedish (hyper-, ultra-). |
| Domain | Title |
Books | |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Business | Many of their restaurants are located in the parking lots of hyper- and supermarkets owned by the GIB group. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| Language | Translations for "HYPER-"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | tepër-, tej- (dia-, over-, super-, supra-, trans-), mbi- (over-, super-, supra-). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | свръх- (over-, super-, sur-, ultra-), хипер-. (various references) | |
Czech | hyper- (ultra), nad (above, beyond, in excess of, outside, over, past, upon). (various references) | |
Greek | υπέρ-. (various references) | |
Hungarian | hiper-. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 超 (super-, ultra-). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | ちょう (billion, block, bowels, butterfly, cake, condoling with, frivolity, government office, guts, indication, intestines, leaf, mourning, omen, pitch, portent, sign, super-, tempo, time, tone, trillion, ultra-). (various references) | |
Pig Latin | yper-hay.(various references) | |
Russian | сверх- (extra-, super-, ultra-). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | hiper-, preko-, nad-, iznad-. (various references) | |
Spanish | hiper-. (various references) | |
Swedish | hyper- (ultra-), över- (over, over-, super-, supra-, top, ultra-). (various references) | |
Turkish | hiper, yüksek (above, acro-, buoyant, Clarion, elevated, exalted, high, highrise, lofty, loud, over, penetrating, penetrative, spheric, stately, superior, tall), aşırı (acute, beastly, beyond, breakneck, camp, confoundedly, cruelly, crusted, damned, dead, deep, desperate, desperately, devilish, disproportionate, every other day, exaggerated, exceeding, excessive, excessively, exorbitant, exquisite, extortionate, extravagant, extreme, extremely, fancy, ferocious, filthy, fond, fulsome, hard, heavy, hell, hell of, high, horrendous, horrific, immoderate, inordinate, intense, intensive, like hell, like sin, outrageous, over, overweening, precious, shocking, splitting, steep, super, terribly, thick, ultra, unbounded, unco, unconscionable, undue, unmeasured, unreasonable, violent), üstün (above, ascendant, ascendent, atop, atop of, choice, distingue, excellent, extra, golden, high, over, predominant, pre-eminencent, preponderant, super, super-, super-duty, superior, supra-, transcendent, unsurpassed, up), çok büyük (a whale of, fab, fantastic, fantastical, howling, sovereign, spanking, stratospheric, thumping, tremendous, vast, very big, voluminous, whopping). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | гіпер-, над- (extra-, over-, super-, supra-). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: hyper. | |
| Words within the letters "e-h-p-r-y" | |
-1 letter: hype, prey, pyre. | |
-2 letters: hep, her, hey, hyp, peh, per, pry, pye, rep, rye, yeh, yep. | |
-3 letters: eh, er, he, pe, re, ye. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-h-p-r-y" | |
+1 letter: cypher, sphery, sypher, zephyr. | |
+2 letters: cyphers, eparchy, hyperon, orphrey, phrensy, preachy, prythee, syphers, therapy, zephyrs. | |
+3 letters: coryphee, cyphered, euphrasy, eutrophy, hypergol, hyperons, hyperope, hypoderm, orphreys, orthoepy, overhype, prophecy, prophesy, pyorrhea, syphered, whispery. | |
+4 letters: archetype, bryophyte, champerty, coryphaei, coryphees, cyphering, epigraphy, eriophyid, geography, gynophore, heptarchy, horseplay, hydropses, hyperacid, hyperarid, hyperbola, hyperbole, hypercube, hyperemia, hyperemic, hyperfine, hypergamy, hypergols, hyperlink, hyperopes, hyperopia, hyperopic, hyperpnea, hyperpure, hypertext, hypocrite, hypoderms, overhyped, overhypes, pachyderm, pentarchy, perilymph, periphery, pharynges, pharynxes, polyhedra, preachify, preachily, prettyish, pyorrheas, pyrethrin, pyrethrum, superhype, syphering, xerophily, xerophyte. | |
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| 1. Definition 2. Crosswords 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Quotations: Non-fiction | 5. Translations: Modern 6. Anagrams 7. Bibliography |
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