Superlative: alternatives and connections

More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

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More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

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Added to a substantive as an attribute; of the nature of an adjunct; as, an adjective word or sentence.

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A word used to modify the sense of a verb, participle, adjective, or other adverb, and usually placed near it; as, he writes well; paper extremely wh…

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A step, stair, or staircase.

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Praise.

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Glory; fame; renown; praise.

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A line or surface to which, at every point, a vertical or plumb line is perpendicular; a line or surface which is everywhere parallel to the surface…

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To appoint.

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To commend; to applaud; to express approbation of; to laud; -- applied to a person or his acts.

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A floor or story of a house.

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Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

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Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

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The top or highest point; the culmination.

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The act of raising from a lower place, condition, or quality to a higher; -- said of material things, persons, the mind, the voice, etc.; as, the ele…

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The condition of being high; elevated position.

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Being at, or pertaining to, midday; belonging to, or passing through, the highest point attained by the sun in his diurnal course.

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A point; the sharp end or top of anything that terminates in a point; as, the peak, or front, of a cap.

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An architectural member, upright, and generally ending in a small spire, -- used to finish a buttress, to constitute a part in a proportion, as where…

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Same as Starling, 3.

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The top; the highest point.

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The highest or utmost degree; the best of anything.

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A child's toy, commonly in the form of a conoid or pear, made to spin on its point, usually by drawing off a string wound round its surface or stem,…

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