zillionth
1
8.4
- adjective
- /ˈzɪljənθ/
- Informal
:
zillionésimo
- Must we go over this for the zillionth time?
- the zillionth time
Examples
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After the zillionth attempt to fix the car, I finally gave up and called a mechanic.
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For the zillionth time, her room's all pink and lace and shit.
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I thought you were out having your, like, zillionth baby.
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I don't care about first, second, or a zillionth level of
Blog text (13) -
"No, no, no," Dazzle told the twins for about the zillionth time that morning.
Fiction book (1999) -
I'm tired of hearing about De-Shone for the zillionth time, so I start thinking about being rich.
Fiction book (1997) -
As Peggy and Janet stood on the front porch of Maxine's house, listening to the music and the laughter coming from inside, Peggy asked for the zillionth time, "Are you sure I look all right?"
Fiction book (2002) -
I had to explain the instructions for the zillionth time before everyone understood.
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She rolled her eyes, annoyed by the zillionth person asking her the same question.
Synonyms
9
6.5
Said when something has happened many times before, often too many times
3
7.0
Of a very large or final number in a series
How Often
- Informal
1
8.4
- Informal
6
2.0
6
2.6
- Informal
54
2.3
∞
1.0
Surface Forms
Morphology
Etymology
Zillionth comes from the playful, made-up number zillion, formed like familiar words such as million and billion to mean 'a very large number'. The -th ending turns it into an order or time (like 'first' or 'second'), so zillionth is used to say something happened an extremely large, unnamed number of times.