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Superior   /supˈɪriər/   Listen
Superior

adjective
1.
Of high or superior quality or performance.  "Superior math students"
2.
Of or characteristic of high rank or importance.
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.
5.
Having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit.
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.
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.



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"Superior" Quotes from Famous Books



... us the better," explained Joey; "we help each other. Besides, I particularly want you in it. There's a sort of superior Pickwickian atmosphere surrounding ...
— Tommy and Co. • Jerome K. Jerome

... The superior advantages of this alternative were instantly plain. It would be safer for Camilla, since it would operate at once; and also Darcy said that the formal details could be arranged much better in Paris than in London, as doctors could be found there who would sign ...
— Hugo - A Fantasia on Modern Themes • Arnold Bennett

... which the streets of Troy are paved do not lend themselves readily to expertness in shooting with marbles. But the subject of this memoir was ever one who, adapting himself to difficulties, rose superior to them. The glass material of which the relic is composed shows numerous indentations in its spherical outline, eloquent testimony to the character which had already begun to learn the lesson of greatness and by perseverance to bend circumstances to its will. ...
— The Mayor of Troy • Sir Arthur Thomas Quiller-Couch

... Notwithstanding the denunciations of the Gaulois, I have not the remotest intention to describe the National Guards as a force of any real value for offensive operations. If, as the Gaulois insists, they are more numerous and better armed than the Prussians, and if the French artillery is superior to the Prussians, they will be able to raise the siege; and then I will acknowledge that I have been wrong in my estimate of them. As yet they have only blown their own trumpets, as though this would cause the Prussian redoubts, like the walls of Jericho, to fall down. I make no imputation ...
— Diary of the Besieged Resident in Paris • Henry Labouchere

... cried Ronald—"good and fair, modest and graceful. Her heart is pure as her face is fair. What mesalliance can there be, father? I never have believed and never shall believe in the cruel laws of caste. In what is one man better than or superior to another save that he is more ...
— Dora Thorne • Charlotte M. Braeme


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