Crossword-Solution: SUPERLATIVE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Superlative | a. | Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the superlative glory of the divine character. |
| Superlative | a. | Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright. |
| Superlative | n. | That which is highest or most eminent; the utmost degree. |
| Superlative | n. | The superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, a form or word by which the superlative degree is expressed; as, strongest, wisest, most stormy, least windy, are all superlatives. |
We have 44 clues for the answer “SUPERLATIVE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| The utmost degree | 1 answer |
| Like an accomplishment worthy of Guinness | 1 answer |
| Surpassing all others | 3 answers |
| Unexcelled | 5 answers |
| Pre-eminent. | 14 answers |
| Of the highest quality | 16 answers |
| FIRST water (pert. to the) | 40 answers |
| strongest | 44 answers |
| elative | 44 answers |
| HIGHEST degree (pert. to the) | 46 answers |
| Incomparable | 46 answers |
| OF the highest degree | 47 answers |
| Greatest | 47 answers |
| most excellent | 48 answers |
| unrivalled | 49 answers |
| maximal | 49 answers |
| finest | 49 answers |
| uppermost | 50 answers |
| unexampled | 50 answers |
| unequalled | 50 answers |
| Paramount | 52 answers |
| Premium ___ | 53 answers |
| Ultra | 54 answers |
| Tip-top | 54 answers |
| Unsurpassed | 55 answers |
| Highest | 55 answers |
| Peerless | 56 answers |
| Unmatched | 57 answers |
| Utmost | 58 answers |
| Exceeding | 58 answers |
| Acme | 60 answers |
| Undiminished | 62 answers |
| Principal | 62 answers |
| Match-less? | 62 answers |
| foremost | 63 answers |
| In the first Place | 66 answers |
| unlimited | 68 answers |
| Raised | 69 answers |
| Exceptional | 71 answers |
| CHIEF ___ | 77 answers |
| Outstanding | 87 answers |
| ACE ___ | 92 answers |
| Excellent | 99 answers |
| Top | 111 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
EEATR
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with SUPERLATIVE (5)
But her new friend had promised, and why should he tease her so? The effect of a blow is as proportionate to the texture of the object struck as to its own momentum; and she had such a superlative capacity for being wounded that little hits struck her hard.
The stimulant habitually consumed by the Ninemilers had induced in them a state of superlative Dutch courage, and they looked upon the whole affair as a wildly hilarious joke.
Now, it seems to be a law of nature that we must show our true selves at some time, and as the Scot must do it at home, and squeeze a day into an hour, what follows is that there he is self-revealing in the superlative degree, the feelings so long dammed up overflow, and thus a Scotch family are probably better acquainted with each other, and more ignorant of the life outside their circle, than any other family in the world.
One of the gentlemen, in any case, succeeded in placing himself in close relation with our friend’s companion; a gentleman rather stout and importantly short, in a hat with a wonderful wide curl to its brim and a frock coat buttoned with an effect of superlative decision.
For martyrdoms, I reckon them amongst miracles; because they seem to exceed the strength of human nature: and I may do the like, of superlative and admirable holiness of life.
Quotes with SUPERLATIVE (3)
There is a legend about a bird which sings just once in its life, more sweetly than any other creature on the face of the earth. From the moment it leaves the nest it searches for a thorn tree, and does not rest until it has found one. Then, singing among the savage branches, it impales itself upon the longest, sharpest spine. And, dying, it rises above its own agony to outcarol the lark and the nightingale. One superlative song, existence the price. But the whole world still…
It is a foible of our human nature that when we have an extremely unpleasant experience, it gives us a peculiar satisfaction if it is “the biggest” of its disagreeable kind that has happened since the world began. During a heat wave, for instance, we are very pleased if the papers announce that it is “the highest temperature reached since the year 1881,” and we feel a little resentment towards the year 1881 for having gone us one better. Or if our ears are frozen till all the…
When the Great War broke out, it came to me not as a superlative tragedy, but as an interruption of the most exasperating kind to my personal plans.
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Used 1 time in crossword archives (2024).