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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



... then the bands of death were burst, Shattered the sway of hell accurst: Then did the Day's superior might Swiftly dispel ...
— The Hymns of Prudentius • Aurelius Clemens Prudentius
... face with two trembling hands. The other woman, with her superior intellect, had discovered the secret she had feebly tried to guard. There was a pause and a dead silence. That silence told all that was necessary to Charlotte Harman. After a time she said gently, but all the fibre and ...
— How It All Came Round • L. T. Meade
... the cloak were almost understandable to Mrs. Travers in the perfection of their melancholy contempt, and gave Lingard a further insight into the character of the ally secured to him by the diplomacy of Belarab. He was only half reassured by this assumption of superior detachment. He trusted to the man's self-interest more; for Daman no doubt looked to the reconquered kingdom for the reward of dignity and ease. His father and grandfather (the men of whom Jorgenson had written as having been hanged for an example twelve years ...
— The Rescue • Joseph Conrad
... this hypothesis introduces real formal unity without prejudicing mechanical plurality. Each of the mind-units in my body is itself and substantially distinct. But since each, in its own way and according to its own position, represents the superior and more developed mind which I call 'me', they will order themselves according to a common form. The order is real, not accidental: it is like the order of troops on a parade-ground. Each man is a distinct ...
— Theodicy - Essays on the Goodness of God, the Freedom of Man and the Origin of Evil • G. W. Leibniz
... be settled one way or another," said the jailer, with a superior's self-assured witticism. "Now, then, ...
— Resurrection • Count Leo Tolstoy


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