superior

Meanings

Adjective

• Higher in rank, status, or quality.
• Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
• Printed in superscript.
• Located above or out; higher in position.
• More comprehensive.
• Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
• Closer to the Earth than to the Sun.

Noun

• A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.
• A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
• One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.

Related

Opposite words

• inferior

Origin

• Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior ("higher, upper").