Definitions for Superior

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Superior su·pe·ri·or

Spelling: [suh-peer-ee-er, soo-]

IPA: /səˈpɪər i ər, sʊ-/

Superior is a 8 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 10 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 12 points.

You can make 250 anagrams from letters in Superior (eioprrsu).

Definitions for Superior

noun

1. one superior to another.
2. Also called superscript. Printing. a superior letter, number, or symbol. Compare inferior (def 11).
3. Ecclesiastical. the head of a monastery, convent, or the like.
4. Lake, a lake in the N central United States and S Canada: the northernmost of the Great Lakes; the largest body of fresh water in the world. 350 miles (564 km) long; 31,820 sq. mi. (82,415 sq. km); greatest depth, 1290 feet (393 meters); 602 feet (183 meters) above sea level.
5. a port in NW Wisconsin, on Lake Superior.

adjective

1. higher in station, rank, degree, importance, etc.:
2. above the average in excellence, merit, intelligence, etc.:
3. of higher grade or quality:
4. greater in quantity or amount:
5. showing a consciousness or feeling of being better than or above others:
6. not yielding or susceptible (usually followed by to):
7. higher in place or position:
8. Botany. situated above some other organ. (of a calyx) seeming to originate from the top of the ovary. (of an ovary) free from the calyx.
9. Anatomy. higher in place or position; situated above another. toward the head. Compare inferior (def 7).
10. Printing. written or printed high on a line of text, as the “2” in a 2b; superscript. Compare inferior (def 9).

Origin of Superior

1350-1400; Middle English (adj.) Latin, equivalent to super(us) situated above (adj. derivative of super; see super-) + -ior comparative suffix; see Examples for Superior

The training by her father, too, had been of a superior kind.

The essence of nearly every Disney film is that women need saving, preferably by a man from a superior social and economic class.

Never the less, Drone Boning is by far the superior production.

Our superior rank places us in the front row of the procession.

But Viviette regarded him with a smile--the smile of woman's superior wisdom.

The attitude of the local colleagues at first puzzled us, and then made us snicker in a superior way.

Hitchcock sends the script--unread--to Thom Mount and his superior, Ned Tanen.

The granite of the mountains is superior to the celebrated Quincy.

Some other men and a woman were scanning the hoisting machinery with superior looks.

Virginia Woolf loved Wuthering Heights and considered Emily Brontë superior to her sister Charlotte.