supertall

English

Etymology

From super- +‎ tall.

Pronunciation

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Adjective

supertall (comparative more supertall, superlative most supertall)

1. Extremely tall.

Noun

supertall (plural supertalls)

1. A very tall building.
   • 2008 June 15, Amy Cortese, “Scraping the Sky, and Then Some”, in New York Times‎^[1]:

     As the show suggests, the center of gravity today has shifted from North America and Europe to Asia and the Middle East, where supertalls are rising at a frenetic pace.

2. (architecture) A building between 300m and 600m tall, approximately 1000ft to 2000ft tall. A tall building taller than a plain tall but shorter than a megatall.

Usage notes

The Council on Tall Buildings and Urban Habitat uses this term to denote any building whose height exceeds 984 feet (300 metres).

Hypernyms

• skyscraper

 

Related terms

• megatall
• plain tall
• tall

 

Coordinate terms

• highrise
• high-rise
• high rise
• low-rise
• low rise
• lowrise
• midrise
• mid-rise
• mid rise
• skyscraper