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Superior
SUPE'RIOR, a. [Sp.L. from super, above.]
1. Higher; upper; more elevated in place; as the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.
2. Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.
3. Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, goodness or value of any quality; as a man of superior merit, of superior bravery, of superior talents or understanding, of superior accomplishments.
4. Being beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; as a man superior to revenge.
There is not on earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.
5. In botany, a superior flower has the receptacle of the flower above the germ; a superior germ is included within the corol.
SUPE'RIOR, n. One who is more advanced in age. Old persons or elders are the superiors of the young.
1. One who is more elevated in rank or office.
2. One who surpasses others in dignity, excellence or qualities of any kind. As a writer of pure English, Addison has no superior.
3. The chief of a monastery, convent or abbey.
superior appears in definitions for these words:
Abba Abbess Abbot Above Accipiter Account Accountable Advantage Advantage-ground Advocation Affable Alderman Allodium Altitude Ambition Ambitious Ambitiously Appeal Arriere Ascend Ascendant Ascending Aside Attornment Back Before Being Belle Beneath Better Blanching Borough Bow-dye Bronchial Bulletin Canonical Cast Casualty Celestial Certiorari Challenge Challenger Commissary Common Competition Condescend Condescension Conjuration Conjurer Constitution Consultation Contest Contrast Controll Countersign Deanery Decree Defluxion Degree Deity Demoniac Dignity Disaffirm Disaffirmance Discomfit Disdain Dispute Distance Distinction Distinguished Divination Diviner Divinity Domineer Domineering Doubt Dutiful Elevation Emperor Emulation Envious Envy Envying Episcopacy Equal Excellent Extinguish Exultation Familiarize Fanatic Fate Father Fealty Fee Feodary Feud Feudary Feudatory Fief Fine Flake Forfeit Freehold Gain Gammon General Genius Give Goddess Godlike Govern Governing Great Hand Hebdomadal Heliacal High Holding Homage Immodest Improper Impropriety Indecency Indecorous Independent Indignation Inferior Injunction Inspiration Intelligence Irresistibility Irreverent Irreverently Jealousy Jupiter Kingly Lake Latter Let Level Liege Lieutenant Liquidate Liver Liveryman Loyal Master-piece Masterly Mastership Mastery Mesne Midshipman Ministerial Ministering Mock Monarch Mutation New Obey Obsequious Obsequiousness Odds Orderly Ordinary Outgeneral Outwit Over Overawe Overcome Overcomingly Overmatch Overrule Overruling Overtop Palm Paragon Paramount Part Patriarch Patriarchship Pay Petition Phengite Place Planet Polytheism Pre-eminence Pre-eminent Pre-eminently Precedence Predominance Predominant Predominantly Predominate Predominating Predomination Preferment Prefulgency Prepollence Prepollent Preponderance Prepotency Presence Present Press Prevail Prevailing Prevalence Prevalent Prevalently Pride Prince Principality Prior Prioress Priority Priory Probability Prohibition Quality Rector Regulation Reign Religion Report Request Rescind Respect Return Reverence Rival Rivalry Rivalship Sacred Salute Sanction Sauciness Saucy School Scorn Scuffle Scuffling Seniority Serve Service Sovereign Squabble Stoop Strife Subaltern Subdue Submission Subordination Suit Summons Superangelic Superciliary Supereminence Supereminent Supereminently Superexalt Superexcellence Superintendent Superior Superiority Supersede Superstition Superstitiously Suveran Talent Tenebrous Tenure Topped Transcendence Transcendent Trochleary Uncertain Uncontrolled Unduteous Uninstructed Unruled Upper Vantage Vantage-ground Vassal Veneration Vicegerent Victory Vie Visitation Visitor Voyage War Will Win Yield
Abba Abbess Abbot Above Accipiter Account Accountable Advantage Advantage-ground Advocation Affable Alderman Allodium Altitude Ambition Ambitious Ambitiously Appeal Arriere Ascend Ascendant Ascending Aside Attornment Back Before Being Belle Beneath Better Blanching Borough Bow-dye Bronchial Bulletin Canonical Cast Casualty Celestial Certiorari Challenge Challenger Commissary Common Competition Condescend Condescension Conjuration Conjurer Constitution Consultation Contest Contrast Controll Countersign Deanery Decree Defluxion Degree Deity Demoniac Dignity Disaffirm Disaffirmance Discomfit Disdain Dispute Distance Distinction Distinguished Divination Diviner Divinity Domineer Domineering Doubt Dutiful Elevation Emperor Emulation Envious Envy Envying Episcopacy Equal Excellent Extinguish Exultation Familiarize Fanatic Fate Father Fealty Fee Feodary Feud Feudary Feudatory Fief Fine Flake Forfeit Freehold Gain Gammon General Genius Give Goddess Godlike Govern Governing Great Hand Hebdomadal Heliacal High Holding Homage Immodest Improper Impropriety Indecency Indecorous Independent Indignation Inferior Injunction Inspiration Intelligence Irresistibility Irreverent Irreverently Jealousy Jupiter Kingly Lake Latter Let Level Liege Lieutenant Liquidate Liver Liveryman Loyal Master-piece Masterly Mastership Mastery Mesne Midshipman Ministerial Ministering Mock Monarch Mutation New Obey Obsequious Obsequiousness Odds Orderly Ordinary Outgeneral Outwit Over Overawe Overcome Overcomingly Overmatch Overrule Overruling Overtop Palm Paragon Paramount Part Patriarch Patriarchship Pay Petition Phengite Place Planet Polytheism Pre-eminence Pre-eminent Pre-eminently Precedence Predominance Predominant Predominantly Predominate Predominating Predomination Preferment Prefulgency Prepollence Prepollent Preponderance Prepotency Presence Present Press Prevail Prevailing Prevalence Prevalent Prevalently Pride Prince Principality Prior Prioress Priority Priory Probability Prohibition Quality Rector Regulation Reign Religion Report Request Rescind Respect Return Reverence Rival Rivalry Rivalship Sacred Salute Sanction Sauciness Saucy School Scorn Scuffle Scuffling Seniority Serve Service Sovereign Squabble Stoop Strife Subaltern Subdue Submission Subordination Suit Summons Superangelic Superciliary Supereminence Supereminent Supereminently Superexalt Superexcellence Superintendent Superior Superiority Supersede Superstition Superstitiously Suveran Talent Tenebrous Tenure Topped Transcendence Transcendent Trochleary Uncertain Uncontrolled Unduteous Uninstructed Unruled Upper Vantage Vantage-ground Vassal Veneration Vicegerent Victory Vie Visitation Visitor Voyage War Will Win Yield
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