superior

superior is a 8-letter English word with 23 senses as adjective and noun in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image. Face value is 10 in Scrabble and 12 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

8 letters · Scrabble 10 · Words With Friends 12 · 23 senses

Definitions

1. adjective. More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.
2. adjective. Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.
3. adjective. Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery.
4. adjective. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to.
5. adjective. More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.
6. adjective. 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; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.
7. adjective. Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.
8. adjective. Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle.
9. noun. One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English.
10. noun. The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.
11. noun. a character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character

    Synonyms: superscript

12. noun. a town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth
13. noun. the largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes
14. noun. the head of a religious community
15. noun. one of greater rank or station or quality

    Synonyms: superordinate

16. noun. a combatant who is able to defeat rivals

    Synonyms: master, victor

17. adjective. (often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by

    "he is superior to fear"

    "an ignited firework proceeds superior to circumstances until its blazing vitality fades"

18. adjective. (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by

    "overcome by a superior opponent"

    "trust magnates who felt themselves superior to law"

19. adjective. having a higher rank

    "superior officer"

    Synonyms: ranking

20. adjective. of or characteristic of high rank or importance

    "a superior ruler"

21. adjective. of high or superior quality or performance

    "superior wisdom derived from experience"

    "superior math students"

22. adjective. having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit

    "Mars and Jupiter are the closest in of the superior planets"

23. adjective. written or printed above and to one side of another character

    Synonyms: superscript

Synonyms

superscript, superordinate, master, victor, ranking

Common word forms

superiors, superiorly, superiority, superiorness

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