to transcend

Examples

• All

• Using environmental print this way will enable the educator to transcend traditional curriculum boundaries.

  Academic text (1999)

• What had happened between Vyvyan and I transcended language.

  Cloud Atlas (2012)

• And you cannot transcend by talking about it.

  Rich Roll

• It's a beautiful opportunity to help someone that we know can transcend our sport.

  Kipchoge: The Last Milestone (2021)

• But how are you able to transcend that perception?

  Film Courage

• How should we deal with problems that transcend national boundaries, such as global environmental decay?

  Academic text (1990)

• We became friends in a sense that transcends the relationship of parent and child.

  Fiction book (1998)

• All of quantum physics transcends our personal life experience.

• I mean an album like Play transcends the music industry because it became a mainstream phenomenon.

  Moby Doc (2021)

• Thanks to the MPFC, we can mentally transcend our own perspective and see things from another person's perspective.

  Academic text (2011)

Synonyms

E

to exceed

vsto transcend

269 4.1

To be greater than a set amount or beyond what people expect

goes beyond that idea with a more general, nonnumeric sense

G

to go beyond

vsto transcend

266 3.6

To exceed a limit or what people expect

covers that action but also implies rising above usual meaning

T

to top

vsto transcend

168 2.4

To be better than others in a contest or ranking

is less about ranking and more about rising above limits

S

to surpass

vsto transcend

99 4.6

To be better than another person or thing

goes beyond limits more broadly, not only in direct competition

P

to pass

vsto transcend

44 3.4

To be better than a set standard

emphasizes a wider transcendence of limits rather than simple ranking

P

to push the envelope

vsto transcend

35 7.3

To try new ideas that go beyond accepted limits

means going beyond limits in a broader, less technical sense

G

to go above and beyond

vsto transcend

16 3.7

To do more than is required to help others or complete a task

applies more widely to going beyond limits or expectations in general

G

to go past

vsto transcend

14 3.5

Be better than a limit or what people expected

stretches that idea to a broader, often nonliteral sense

O

to outstrip

vsto transcend

12 6.8

To become faster, better, or larger than another

focuses more on exceeding limits in a general, noncompetitive way

S

to surmount

vsto transcend

1 6.8

To reach the top of a hill or mountain after climbing it

covers going beyond limits but is less about physical ascent

O

to outpass

vsto transcend

1 8.1

To move past another person or thing and go ahead of them

is about surpassing limits in a wider, often abstract way

T

to transpass

vsto transcend

• Archaic

9.9

To go past a limit or cross a border

shares crossing meaning but is broader and more general in use

O

to overgo

vsto transcend

• Archaic

9.1

To do better than someone or something

carries that idea but implies a wider, more elevated surpassing

How Much

to transcend

• Formal

94 6.8

to surpass

99 4.6

to exceed

269 4.1

to go beyond

266 3.6

Surface Forms

Morphology

Etymology