widestmost

Widestmost is a coined adjective and adverb used in informal English to indicate an extreme degree of width within a group or comparison. It is not recognized in major dictionaries and is generally considered nonstandard or jocular.

The word appears to be a blend of standard forms that express width: the superlative widest and the intensifier most, yielding widestmost. As a nonce formation, it is typically employed for emphasis in playful writing, memes, or marketing copy rather than in formal usage.

Usage and notes: Because widestmost is nonstandard, it should be avoided in formal writing. In ordinary contexts, speakers would usually rely on widest to denote the maximum width within a set, or use more standard phrasing such as the most wide in rarer cases. When used, widestmost commonly signals humor, exaggeration, or novelty and may read as tongue-in-cheek or meme-driven. In advertising, it can appear to create a memorable, if awkward, sense of exceptional breadth, though it risks ambiguity or overstatement.

Examples: Among all the doors, this one is the widestmost. The widestmost canyon draws crowds from across the region, even though most readers would expect the word widest instead.

See also: wide, width, widest, superlatives, neologisms, nonce formations.