crossest
- 1Superlative of cross.
By the end of the long, delayed journey she was the crossest of all the passengers.
His crossest remarks were always saved for anyone who interrupted his afternoon reading.
Note
A superlative that really belongs to one meaning of cross: the bad-tempered one, at home in British English. A transverse beam or a mutually inverse relation is not more or less cross, so crossest almost always describes temper, as in the crossest passenger or her crossest reply. Cross has one syllable, so it takes -est rather than most, with crosser as the step between.
crossest is a form of cross
cross, adjective: Running crosswise rather than in the main direction, as a street that intersects another does. Full entry
- Spelling
- cross → crossest: add -est
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