hyperpartisan
adjective, noun
hyperpartisan is an adjective meaning “Extremely partisan; extremely biased in favor of a political party” (English Wiktionary, September 2026). It is spelled H-Y-P-E-R-P-A-R-T-I-S-A-N, and it appears about once in every 49 million words in written English (wordfreq, 2021 data).
What does hyperpartisan mean?
adjective
- 1
Extremely partisan; extremely biased in favor of a political party.
- 2
Sharply polarized by political parties in fierce disagreement with each other.
noun
- 1
An extreme political partisan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
Forms of hyperpartisan
- more hyperpartisan comparative
- most hyperpartisan superlative
- hyperpartisans plural
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).
How common is hyperpartisan?
Hyperpartisan appears about once in every 49 million words in written English, the 217,360th most frequent word form in the list.
Source: written frequency: wordfreq 3.1 (a 2021 snapshot of Wikipedia, subtitles, news, books, web text and social media).
Where does hyperpartisan come from?
From hyper- + partisan.
Source: English Wiktionary, dump of September 2, 2026 (CC BY-SA 4.0), through kaikki.org (Wiktextract).