superior
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5.5
- adjective
- /suːˈpɪr.i.ər/
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- Despite the tense situation, she remained superior to the pressure and maintained her composure.
- superior to ideological claims
She tells us that they feel disgust, which they thought they were superior to.
- She tells us that they feel disgust, which they thought they were superior to.
Examples
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His calm demeanor showed that he was superior to the chaos surrounding the event.
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And perhaps it could make it superior in some ways.
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There is no superior way of thinking about these things.
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So which is superior, the spiritual or the material?
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Do you really think I do all of this to feel superior?
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Both the Spanish and the English assumed that their culture was superior to that of the Native Americans.
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If no one could be worshipped except God, then no one was superior to anyone else.
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In their view, entire peoples cannot be judged as superior or inferior along a universal scale of value.
Academic text (1999) -
Thoreau's nature is compared to Wordsworth's, and neither is superior to the other, only different.
Academic text (1999) -
His theories are unorthodox, and he has this infuriatingly superior manner about him.
Fiction book (1997)
Antonyms
Compounds
- Specialized
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7.0
A large blood vessel from the aorta that sends blood to the small intestine and part of the colon
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2.7
The largest freshwater lake in the world on the border of the United States and Canada
- Specialized
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4.5
A large vein that carries blood with little oxygen from the upper body to the right side of the heart
- Specialized
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8.9
An upper fold of tissue in the throat that does not make sound
- Specialized
An artery that gives blood to the upper teeth and nearby gums
- Specialized
A vein that drains blood from the upper front of the belly and runs beside its artery
- Specialized
A vein in the top of a lung that carries oxygen-rich blood to the left upper part of the heart
- Specialized
A long vein in the deep part of the brain that drains blood
- Specialized
A vein that carries blood from the inner corner of the eye into a deep vein behind the eye
- Specialized
A planet that orbits the Sun outside Earth's orbit, like Mars or Jupiter
- Specialized
A neck vein that carries blood from the top of the thyroid gland into a large neck vein
- Specialized
A blood vessel that carries blood to the upper part of the cerebellum and nearby midbrain
- Specialized
A part of the brain that helps process what you see and control quick eye movements
- Specialized
When a planet is on the far side of the Sun from Earth so we cannot see it
- Specialized
A brain vein that drains blood from the top half of the brain
- Specialized
A vein that carries blood from the upper part of each lung to the left upper chamber of the heart
How Affected
Surface Forms
Morphology
superior = super (semi-transparent) = super + ior
The attitudinal sense ('feeling above/influenced by nothing') is related to 'above' but represents a subjective shift in meaning.
Etymology
Superior comes from the Latin super 'above', and that sense of being 'above' is used when someone is not affected by something. So to be superior to criticism or emotion is to stand 'above' it.