superior

About 32.28 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective 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. adjective Of high standard or quality.
3. adjective Greater in size or power.
4. adjective Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
5. adjective Greater or better than average.
6. adjective Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
7. adjective Printed in superscript.

   a superior figure or letter

8. adjective Located above or out; higher in position.

   the superior jaw; the superior part of an image

Similar words

fine topnotch top-hole premium quality superb super excellent top-flight preeminent

Often followed by

to court in and of force vena mesenteric quality

Word family

Superior superiorly superiors