Crossword-Solution: SUPERIOR
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| Superior | a. | More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image. |
| Superior | a. | Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility. |
| Superior | a. | Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery. |
| Superior | a. | Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; -- with to. |
| Superior | a. | More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species. |
| Superior | a. | Above the ovary; -- said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it. |
| Superior | a. | Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior. |
| Superior | a. | Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; -- said of the radicle. |
| Superior | n. | One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English. |
| Superior | n. | The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like. |
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Sentences with SUPERIOR (5)
Thus said, he turnd, and _Satan_ bowing low, As to superior Spirits is wont in Heaven, Where honour due and reverence none neglects, Took leave, and toward the coast of Earth beneath, Down from th’ Ecliptic, sped with hop’d success, Throws his steep flight with many an Aerie wheele, Nor staid, till on _Niphates_ top he lights.
Indeed, it is not uncommon for slaves even to fall out and quarrel among themselves about the relative goodness of their masters, each contending for the superior goodness of his own over that of the others.
Father says the people in the mountains still do queer things, sometimes,—they believe that trees bring good or bad luck.” Emil looked superior.
Unlike and superior to either of those two typical remnants of mediævalism, the old barn embodied practices which had suffered no mutilation at the hands of time.
Now whenever things are so that a lot of people feel they ought to be doing something, the weak, and those who go weak with a lot of complicated thinking, always make for a sort of do-nothing religion, very pious and superior, and submit to persecution and the will of the Lord.
Quotes with SUPERIOR (3)
To be kind, honest and have positive thoughts; to forgive those who harm us and treat everyone as a friend; to help those who are suffering and never to consider ourselves superior to anyone else: even if this advice seems rather simplistic, make the effort of seeing whether by following it you can find greater happiness.
I believe in equality. Equality for everybody. No matter how stupid they are or how superior I am to them.
This, then, is held to be the duty of the man of wealth: To set an example of modest, unostentatious living, shunning display or extravagance; to provide moderately for the legitimate wants of those dependent on him; and, after doing so, to consider all surplus revenues which come to him simply as trust funds, which he is called upon to administer, and strictly bound as a matter of duty to administer in the manner which, in his judgement, is best calculated to produce the mos…
Where this answer appears
Appears in: Boston Globe, Chronicle, LAT, New Yorker, NYT, Universal, USA TODAY, WP, WSJ.
Used 17 times in crossword archives (1950–2024).