superior

adjective

1. 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.

   There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs,[…], and all these articles[…] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.

   Additionally, reliability proved to be superior to NBL's design, with an average of 120,000 miles run during 1959.

2. 2

   Higher in rank, status, or quality. Of high standard or quality.

   She always treated (her husband) as a boy, which he was, and as a fool, which he was not, thinking herself so immeasurably superior to him that she neglected opportunity after opportunity of establishing her rule.

3. 3

   Higher in rank, status, or quality. Greater in size or power.

4. 4

   Higher in rank, status, or quality. Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.

   There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy […]than a brave man superior to his sufferings.

5. 5

   Higher in rank, status, or quality. Greater or better than average.

6. 6

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

7. 7

   Printed in superscript.

   a superior figure or letter

8. 8

   Located above or out; higher in position.

   the superior jaw; the superior part of an image

9. 9

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

10. 10

    Located above or out; higher in position. (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. 11

    Located above or out; higher in position. (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.

12. 12

    Located above or out; higher in position. Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.

13. 13

    Located above or out; higher in position. (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.

14. 14

    More comprehensive.

    A genus is superior to a species.

15. 15

    Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.

16. 16

    Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.

noun

1. 1

   A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position. The senior person in a monastic community.

2. 2

   A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position. The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.

3. 3

   A superior letter, figure, or symbol.

4. 4

   historicalOne who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.

Forms

plural

superiors

comparative

more superior

superlative

most superior