superior

adjective more superior · most superior · superiour

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.
2. 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. Greater in size or power.
4. 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. Greater or better than average.

   Similar: extraordinary

6. Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
7. Printed in superscript. a superior figure or letter
8. Located above or out; higher in position. the superior jaw; the superior part of an image
9. Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
10. (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. (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
12. Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.

    Similar: posterior

13. (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.

    Similar: ascending

14. More comprehensive. A genus is superior to a species.
15. Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.

    Similar: supercilious

16. of a planet in the Solar System Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.

Similar: crowning, ferior, foremost, greater, higher, major, paramount, preeminent, superior, supreme, utmost, vaulting · Opposite: inferior, equivalent

noun superiors · superiour

1. The senior person in a monastic community.

   Similar: overling

2. The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.

   Similar: overling

3. A superior letter, figure, or symbol.

   Similar: superscript

4. historical One 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.

proper noun

1. A town in Pinal County, Arizona.
2. A statutory town in Boulder County, Colorado.
3. An unincorporated community in Raccoon Township, Parke County, Indiana.
4. A minor city in Dickinson County, Iowa.
5. A township in Chippewa County, Michigan.
6. A township and unincorporated community therein, in Washtenaw County, Michigan.
7. A town, the county seat of Mineral County, Montana.
8. A small city in Nuckolls County, Nebraska.
9. An unincorporated community in McDowell County, West Virginia.
10. A city, village, and civil town in Wisconsin. The city is the county seat of Douglas County.
11. A town in Sweetwater County, Wyoming.
12. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Lake Superior
13. abbreviation, ellipsis Ellipsis of Superior Craton
14. Synonym of Superia.

    Similar: Superia