superiour

Adjective

superior (comparative more superior, superlative most superior)

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.
   1. 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.1905, E. M. Forster, Where Angels Fear to Tread, chapter 3
   2. Greater in size or power.
   3. (superior to) 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.1711 December 11 (Gregorian calendar), [Joseph Addison; Richard Steele et al.], “FRIDAY, December 1, 1711”, in The Spectator, number 237; republished in Alexander Chalmers, editor, The Spectator; a...
   4. Greater or better than average.
2. Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).

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