what is the meaning of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious?

Question

Does anyone know what the meaning of supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is? I really want to know and it is making me angry!!

Answer 1

Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious is a song featuring this long word in the musical film Mary Poppins and in the musical play Mary Poppins by Robert B. and Richard M. Sherman (The Sherman Brothers).

The song describes how using the word is a miraculous way to talk oneself out of difficult situations and even a way to change one's mood. It occurs in the film's animated sequence where Mary Poppins is harangued by reporters after winning a horse race and responds to a reporter's claim that there are not words to describe her feelings of the moment. Mary disagrees with that claim and begins the song about one word which she can use to describe her feelings. Following the successes of the film and musical play, the word has been used as an adjective signifying rather redundant superlatives, such as "the most absolutely stunningly fantastic" of experiences.

Critics' belief that the word itself has obscure origins has created some debate about when it was first used historically. According to Robert B. Sherman, co-writer of the song with his brother, Richard, the word was created mostly out of double-talk.

Roots of the word have been defined, as Richard Lederer writes in his book Crazy English as follows: super- "above," cali- "beauty," fragilistic- "delicate," expiali- "to atone," and docious- "educable," with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for extreme and delicate beauty while still being highly educable. This explication of its connotations suits the fictional character of Mary Poppins, in that she presents herself as both superlatively beautiful and also supremely intelligent and capable of great achievements.

Answer 2

"Supercalifragilisticexpialidocious" is a song featuring this long word in the musical film Mary Poppins.
The song describes how using the word is a miraculous way to talk oneself out of difficult situations and even a way to change one's mood. It occurs in the film's animated sequence where Mary Poppins is harangued by reporters after winning a horse race and responds to a reporter's claim that there are not words to describe her feelings of the moment. Mary disagrees with that claim and begins the song about one word which she can use to describe her feelings. Following the successes of the film and musical play, the word has been used as an adjective signifying rather redundant superlatives, such as "the most absolutely stunningly fantastic" of experiences.

Answer 3

The roots of the word have been defined as follows: super- "above", cali- "beauty", fragilistic- "delicate", expiali- "to atone", and docious- "educable", with the sum of these parts signifying roughly "Atoning for educability through delicate beauty." Although the word contains recognizable English morphemes, it does not follow the rules of English morphology as a whole. The morpheme -istic is a suffix in English, whereas the morpheme ex- is typically a prefix; so following normal English morphological rules, it would represent two words: supercalifragilistic and expialidocious. The pronunciation also leans towards it being two words since, the letter c doesn't normally sound like a k when followed by an e, an i or a y. According to film, it is defined as "something to say when you have nothing to say".

Answer 4

Supercalifragilisticexpialidoc ious is a word invented by Mary Poppins.

Answer 5

Well, like Mary Poppins said, "it's something quite atrocious"

Answer 6

It's part of a stupid song etched in the brains of baby boomers and their children. Why did you have to bring it up?

Answer 7

I dont know. BUt if u say it loud enough u sure might sound precocious.

Answer 8

the complete absence of a point.

Answer 9

its a made up word..........just means - super wonderful fantastic great fabulous etc

Answer 10

Julie Andrews adlibbing again !!!........haha