Word Meanings - HINDEREST - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Hindermost; -- superl. of Hind, a. Chaucer.
Related words: (words related to HINDEREST)
- SUPERLATION
Exaltation of anything beyond truth or propriety. B. Jonson. - SUPERLATIVE
Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright. - HINDERMOST; HINDMOST
Furthest in or toward the rear; last. "Rachel and Joseph hindermost." Gen. xxxiii. 2. (more info) superlative from the same source as the comparative hinder. See - SUPERLUNAR; SUPERLUNARY
Being above the moon; not belonging to this world; -- opposed to sublunary. The head that turns at superlunar things. Pope. - SUPERLUCRATION
Excessive or extraordinary gain. Davenant.