I. literally, growing above the ground, Dsc.4.73, Luc.Lex.6; growing higher than the rest, “οἱ ὑ. τῶν ἀσταχύων” D.L.1.100.
2. overgrown, enormous, “σμίνθος” A.Fr.227 (troch.); “λίθοι ὑ. τὸ μέγαθος” Hdt. 2.175, cf. Ar.Pax229, Pl.734; “ὑ. τῷ μεγέθει ψόφος” Arist.Cael.291a21.
II. without a distinct sense of bulk, monstrous, extraordinary, in good and bad sense, “ἔργον ὑ. μέγαθός τε καὶ κάλλος” Hdt.9.78; “ἔργον ὑ. ἐργάσατο” Id.8.116; “ἀτραπὸς δαιμονίως ὑ.” Ar.Nu.76; “ὑ. τέχνη” Id.Eq.141; πῶς οὐχ ὑπερφυές; is it not most strange? D.29.14; κἀκεῖν᾽ ὑ., εἰ . . Isoc.17.30; τὸ δὲ πάντων -έστατον, ὅτι . . Lys.27.12, cf. Ar. Th.831 (troch.): freq. joined with a relat., “ὄχλος ὑπερφυὴς ὅσος” Id.Pl.750; “ὑπερφυεῖ τινι . . ὡς μεγάλῃ βλάβῃ” Pl.Grg.477d: freq. also joined with other Adjs., in which case, as a rule, it stands second, σχέτλια λέγεις καὶ ὑ. ib.467b; “δεινὸν ὡς ἀληθῶς καὶ ὑ.” D.21.88, etc.; but it stands first in Plu.2.12b, 155a, al.
2. Sup. -έστατος, as an honorific title, Stud.Pal.20.129.3 (v A. D.), etc.: also in Posit., “ἡ ὑ. ὑμῶν ἐξουσία” PMasp.2i 1 (vi A. D.), etc.
III. Adv. -ῶς marvellously, strangely, exceedingly, “φιλαθήναιος ἦν ὑ.” Ar.Ach. 142; “ὑ. σπουδάζειν” Pl.Grg.481b; in affirm. answers, “ὑ. μὲν οὖν” Id.R. 525b: Comp. “-εστέρως” Philostr.Gym.36.