English edit

Etymology edit

ultra- +‎ famous

Adjective edit

ultrafamous (comparative more ultrafamous, superlative most ultrafamous)

  1. Particularly famous.
    • 2007 February 4, Caryn James, “For Edie Sedgwick, a Belated 16th Minute”, in New York Times[1]:
      And nothing reveals that cliché’s laziness more than the misbegotten new film “Factory Girl,” with Sienna Miller as Warhol’s troubled shooting star Edie Sedgwick: ultrafamous in 1965, in celebrity eclipse soon after and dead from a drug overdose at 28.