Meaning

16 senses
  1. Higher in rank, status, or quality.

    Rebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch.

    having a higher rank

  2. Higher in rank, status, or quality.

    Of high standard or quality.

    of high or superior quality or performance

  3. Greater in size or power.

  4. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.

  5. Greater or better than average.

    ausgezeichnet

    превосхо́дныйprevosxódnyj

    найлі́пшийnajlípšyj

  6. Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).

  7. Printed in superscript.

    a superior figure or letter

  8. Located above or out; higher in position.

    the superior jaw; the superior part of an image

  9. Located above or out; higher in position.

    Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.

  10. (of a calyx) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.

  11. (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.

  12. Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.

Examples

211 sentences
  1. This cloth is superior to that.

    Ця тканина краща за ту.

    deDieser Stoff ist höherwertiger als jener.

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  2. I'll get permission from my superior.

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  3. I want to talk to your superior.

    deIch will mit Ihrem Vorgesetzten sprechen!

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  4. It is wrong to think that men are superior to women.

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  5. Tom is your superior.

    ruТом - твой начальник.

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Translations

8 languages
Українська
By meaning 2
higher in rank or quality:
extraordinary:
Русский
By meaning 3
higher in rank or quality:
located above:
extraordinary:
Deutsch
By meaning 2
higher in rank or quality:
extraordinary:

Origin

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upp

From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upper”).

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