supreme
UK/ˌs(j)uːˈpɹiːm//ˌsuˈpɹim/
supreme adjective: dominant, having power over all others.
Adjective
supreme (comparative supremer or more supreme, superlative supremest or most supreme)
- Dominant, having power over all others.
- The US supreme court has ruled unanimously that natural human genes cannot be patented, a decision that scientists and civil rights campaigners said removed a major barrier to patient care and medical innovation.2013 June 21, Karen McVeigh, “US rules human genes can't be patented”, in The Guardian Weekly, volume 189, number 2, page 10
- Synonyms:
- predominant, preponderant, regnant
- Greatest, or the most excellent, extreme, superior, highest, or utmost.
- supreme disgust
- supreme courage
- Situated at the highest part or point.
Verb
supreme (third-person singular simple present supremes, present participle supreming, simple past and past participle supremed)
- To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds.
Noun
supreme (plural supremes)
- The highest point.
- A pizza having a large number of the most common toppings, such as pepperoni, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives, etc.
- Faced with a choice between the Supreme, the Hawaiian [...], the Capricciosa or the Meat Lovers', the bogan will invariably gravitate to the meal most likely to induce a fatal disease.2010, Michael Jayfox, E. Chas McSween, Intravenus DeMilo, Enron Hubbard, Hunter McKenzie-Smythe, Flash Johnson, Things Bogans Like, Sydney: Hachette, page 117
- A breast of chicken or duck with the wing bone attached.
- Anything from which all skin, bones, and other parts which are not eaten have been removed, such as a skinless fish fillet.
Proper noun capitalized: Supreme
the Supreme
- Ellipsis of Supreme Being.
supreme meaning in Hindi, Urdu, Telugu and Kannada
supreme in Hindi
- dominant
- सर्वोच्च sarvocc
- Highest, utmost
- सर्वोच्च sarvocc
supreme in Urdu
- سپریم
supreme in Telugu
- సర్వోన్నతుడు
supreme in Kannada
- ಸರ್ವೋಚ್ಚ
More languagesFewer languages
- supreme in Gujarati
- સર્વોપરિત
- supreme in Odia
- ସର୍ବୋଚ୍ଚତା
- supreme in Nepali
- सर्वोच्चता
- supreme in Malay
- tertinggi, agung
- supreme in Vietnamese
- tối cao, cao nhất
Examples of supreme in a sentence
- The law school graduate clerked for the supreme court judge for the summer.
- Tangaroa is a creator god and sometimes seen as the supreme being.
- Against such 'Guardianesque' idealism and misguided liberalism, Thatcher depicted herself as a supreme realist in international relations.
Synonyms of supreme
Antonyms
Forms of supreme
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | supremer |
| comparative | more supreme |
| superlative | supremest |
| superlative | most supreme |
| alternative form | suprême |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | supremes |
| present participle | supreming |
| past participle | supremed |
| past | supremed |
| Noun | |
| plural | supremes |
Origin of supreme
From Middle English suppreme, partly from Middle French suppreme, supreme and partly from its etymon, Latin suprēmus, superlative of superus (“that is above”). In the cooking sense, partly an independent borrowing of French suprême, partly merged with the existing English word. Doublet of supremo.
Words formed from supreme
Phrases with supreme
Words that rhyme with supreme
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- upstream
- deem
- dream
- scream
- team
- academe
- bream
- downstream
- esteem
- forebeam
- teem
- A team
- ice cream
- under one's own steam
- abeam
- addeem
- astream
- beseem
- centime
- decime
- deme
- fleam
- inseam
- Karim
- preem
- rheme
- seem
- agleam
- breme
- buffer beam
- distream
- foredream
- haem
- heme
- Kareem
- kilim
- leam
- leme
- let off steam
- meem
- misesteem
- misseem
- neem
- on stream
- prime
- redream
- reem
- reim
Questions about supreme
- What does supreme mean?
- Supreme means dominant, having power over all others.
- What is supreme in Hindi?
- Supreme in Hindi is सर्वोच्च (sarvocc). See Supreme meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is supreme?
- Supreme can be an adjective, a verb, a noun or a proper noun.
- How do you pronounce supreme?
- Supreme is pronounced /ˌs(j)uːˈpɹiːm/ (UK).
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Adapted from Wiktionary: supreme (page history and authors); Supreme (page history and authors); supreme (Urdu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supreme (Telugu, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supreme (Kannada, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supreme (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supreme (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); supreme (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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