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Superior   /supˈɪriər/   Listen
Superior

adjective
1.
Of high or superior quality or performance.  "Superior math students"  Antonym: inferior.
2.
Of or characteristic of high rank or importance.  Antonym: inferior.
3.
(sometimes followed by 'to') not subject to or influenced by.  "Trust magnates who felt themselves superior to law"
4.
Written or printed above and to one side of another character.  Synonym: superscript.  Antonyms: adscript, subscript.
5.
Having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit.  Antonym: inferior.
6.
Having a higher rank.  Synonyms: higher-ranking, ranking.
7.
(often followed by 'to') above being affected or influenced by.  "An ignited firework proceeds superior to circumstances until its blazing vitality fades"
noun
1.
One of greater rank or station or quality.  Synonyms: higher-up, superordinate.  Antonym: inferior.
2.
The head of a religious community.
3.
A combatant who is able to defeat rivals.  Synonyms: master, victor.
4.
The largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes.  Synonym: Lake Superior.
5.
A town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth.
6.
A character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character.  Synonym: superscript.  Antonym: subscript.



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"Superior" Quotes from Famous Books



... students are taken over the Holy Places to study the inscriptions and evidences of Christianity, and the most learned and brilliant members of the Order are engaged in research and study that fits them to combat the errors of the Higher Criticism. Their work, which is of a very superior order, has attracted attention among scholars ...
— The Interdependence of Literature • Georgina Pell Curtis
... the evidence given before the Committee on the Conduct of the War, and newspaper correspondence. At that time many of the Federal reports were not to be had: such as were at the War Department were hardly accessible. Reports had been duly made by all superior officers engaged in and surviving this campaign, excepting only the general in command; but, strange to say, not only did Gen. Hooker refrain from making a report, but he retained in his personal possession many of the ...
— The Campaign of Chancellorsville • Theodore A. Dodge
... who had resumed his pen, took no notice whatever, but went on writing while one of the constables prepared to obey his superior's orders. In his indignation the young Scot resolved to fling out of the office and leave the police to do as they pleased in the matter, but, glancing at Susy as he turned round, he again met the gaze of ...
— The Garret and the Garden • R.M. Ballantyne
... house. The boy's father is dead. There's a quaint old beggar, if you like—the grandfather. He was rather a swell in the diplomatic, in his day, it seems—rather an important swell. Now he's bedridden. He sits all day in bed and plays cards with his granddaughter or with a very superior valet, and talks politics with the men who come to see him. Oh yes, he's a quaint old beggar. He has a great quantity of white hair and an enormous square white beard and the fiercest eyes I ever saw, I should ...
— Jason • Justus Miles Forman
... upon her, "that though I accept in all reverence the position of woman as the equal of man, as promulgated in The Princess, by our lion-hearted Laureate, nevertheless I advance beyond him in that respect. I hold"—in a voice calculated to impress the whole table—"that woman is man's superior, and that she degrades herself when she endeavors to place herself ...
— Red Pottage • Mary Cholmondeley


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