Ultrafamous

adj

adj ·Rare ·Advanced level

Definitions

Adjective
  1. 1
    Particularly famous.

    "And nothing reveals that cliché’s laziness more than the misbegotten new film “Factory Girl,” with Sienna Miller as Warhol’s troubled shooting star Edie Sedgwick: ultrafamous in 1965, in celebrity eclipse soon after and dead from a drug overdose at 28."

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"And nothing reveals that cliché’s laziness more than the misbegotten new film “Factory Girl,” with Sienna Miller as Warhol’s troubled shooting star Edie Sedgwick: ultrafamous in 1965, in celebrity eclipse soon after and dead from a drug overdose at 28."

Etymology

From ultra- + famous.

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