campest
- 1Superlative of camp.
The drag revue featured the campest costumes the city had ever put on stage.
Of all his films, that glittering musical is easily the campest.
Note
Only the adjective reaches a top degree here: the theatrical, self-parodying camp of drag revues and glittering musicals, never the tents of a campsite or a military base, which are nouns and cannot be compared. Like many one-syllable adjectives, camp takes -est directly, though most camp carries the same meaning. It can grade any of the adjective's shades: the most exaggerated, the most ostentatiously effeminate, the most knowingly tasteless.
campest is a form of camp
camp, adjective: Deliberately tasteless or vulgar in a knowing, self-parodying way. Full entry
- Spelling
- camp → campest: add -est
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