superb
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3.5
- adjective
- /səˈpɜrb/
- The chef prepared a superb meal that left everyone wanting more.
- provide superb service
- a superb example
- superb coverage
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Watch on YouTubeSo I said good, really superb, wonderful, irresistible.
- So I said good, really superb, wonderful, irresistible.
- And Wilson was a superb, cool campaigner.
- Great location, Chelsea, superb, safe, very outgoing neighborhood.
- Do you think we'll ever have a superb theory of intelligence and of consciousness?
- By some good and just, actually superb, superlatively good and just God.
- And you've been just, you know, superb, superb as a guest.
- I think Timmy, Timmy was a superb Bond.
- The first take is absolutely superb and perfect.
- I mean, to begin with, the scholarship is just superb.
- We ended up with a superb set of data around a TB of data.
- By itself, A Miracle for Breakfast would be a superb biography of one of America's best poets.
Examples
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Madam, your dancing was superb.
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The quality of their research was superb, using both documentary sources and fieldwork in the countryside.
Academic text (1995) -
And we had just superb sets of applications this year.
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The first take is absolutely superb and perfect.
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I really mean it, My darling, you were superb.
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And, Mother, it looks absolutely superb.
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And I, you know, I have a friend whose daughter is a superb athlete.
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And you will make it so because you are a superb researcher, and a fine writer.
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All five books bear her characteristics: knowledge of Mexico, a lucid style, and superb illustrations.
Academic text (1990) -
Gagne was a superb draftsman and believed in architectural form.
Synonyms
∞
1.0
Very good or excellent in quality
∞
1.0
Very good and likely to make you feel happy or amazed
∞
3.5
Very, showing strong feeling or excellent quality
∞
1.0
Very good in quality, appearance, or skill
∞
1.0
Very good and better than most similar things
891
1.9
Very good and impressive, making you feel pleased
671
3.0
Very large or impressive
650
3.3
Very strong and often causing great damage
517
2.7
Very good and impressive
288
3.9
Very impressive and beautiful in appearance or style
241
3.4
Much better than most others in skill or quality
215
1.8
Very good and surprising in a way that pleases people
211
3.2
Very impressive and grand in appearance or style
209
3.4
Of the highest quality and very good
159
4.1
Being much better than normal or usual
154
2.7
Very good and done with care
136
5.4
Very impressive and much better than normal
116
3.5
Very impressive and beautiful
71
7.5
Very good and impressive at a skill
45
3.8
Very high quality or done very well
36
4.4
Very high quality and among the best
28
5.0
Very good and of the highest quality
21
7.8
Very good and the best in quality
14
3.8
Very high quality and lasts a long time
11
7.9
Very good and impressive
10
5.6
A very successful time, for example a year
8
4.6
Of the highest quality
7
7.9
Very good and impressive
3
3.7
Very good quality and better than most others
3
2.8
Very impressive and exciting
1
6.9
Very good and of high quality
1
4.1
Very impressive and making people feel amazed
1
8.2
Very good and impressive
Antonyms
Compounds
How Good
Surface Forms
Etymology
The word superb comes from the Latin superbus, which meant 'proud' and is built from super meaning 'above'. So, when we call something superb, we mean it is 'above' the rest — very excellent.