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unsurpassing

unsurpassing is the misconstruction of unsurpassed.

Meaning of unsurpassed

Adjective

unsurpassed (not comparable)

  1. Not exceeded by others.
    • All grades of coal, deepmined and opencast, are produced, and Durham coking coal is unsurpassed for iron and steel making and is world-famous.1959 May, R. A. Savill, “The coal traffic of the North Eastern Region”, in Trains Illustrated, page 272

Origin of unsurpassing

From un- + surpassing.

Questions about unsurpassing

What is unsurpassing the misconstruction of?
Unsurpassing is the misconstruction of unsurpassed.

Words near unsurpassing in the dictionary

  1. unsurpassableness
  2. unsurpassably
  3. unsurpassed
  4. unsurpassedly
  5. unsurpassedness
  6. unsurpassing
  7. unsurplice
  8. unsurpliced
  9. unsurplices
  10. unsurplicing
  11. unsurprisable

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unsurpassing (page history and authors); unsurpassed (page history and authors). 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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