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primacy

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Main Entry: primacy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: supremacy

Synonyms:

authority, command, domination, power, prelacy
Main Entry: command
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: rule, power

Synonyms:

ability, absolutism, aplomb, authority, authorization, charge, coercion, compulsion, constraint, control, despotism, domination, dominion, expertise, expertism, expertness, government, grasp, grip, hold, jurisdiction, know-how, leadership, management, might, prerogative, primacy, restraint, right, royalty, skill, sovereignty, strings, supervision, supremacy, sway, tyranny, upper hand
Notes: an order is being told to do something with no specific guidelines, a command is being told to do something in a specific way, and a directive is being told to do something and getting this information through channels

Antonyms:

subordination
Main Entry: lead
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: first place, supremacy

Synonyms:

advance, advantage, ahead, bulge, cutting edge*, direction, edge, example, facade, front rank, guidance, head, heavy, leadership, margin, model, over, pilot, point, precedence, primacy, principal, priority, protagonist, spark, star, start, title role, top, top spot, vanguard

Antonyms:

last
Main Entry: leadership
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: guidance

Synonyms:

administration, authority, capacity, command, conduction, control, conveyance, direction, directorship, domination, foresight, hegemony, influence, initiative, management, pilotage, power, preeminence, primacy, skill, superintendency, superiority, supremacy, sway
Main Entry: rank
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: standing in a system, often a social one

Synonyms:

ancestry, authority, birth, blood, cachet, capacity, caste, circumstance, class, classification, condition, consequence, degree, dignity, distinction, division, echelon, estate, esteem, family, footing, grade, hierarchy, level, nobility, note, order, paramountcy, parentage, pecking order, pedigree, place, position, primacy, privilege, quality, reputation, seniority, situation, slot, sort, sovereignty, sphere, state, station, stature, status, stock, stratum, supremacy, type
Main Entry: sovereignty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: domination

Synonyms:

ascendancy, ascendant, dominance, dominion, jurisdiction, preeminence, prepotence, prepotency, primacy, supremacy, supreme power, sway

Antonyms:

submission
Main Entry: supremacy
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: total domination

Synonyms:

absolute rule, ascendancy, authority, command, control, dominance, dominion, driver's seat, paramountcy, power, predominance, preeminence, preponderance, prepotence, primacy, principality, sovereignty, superiority, supreme authority, sway, transcendence

Antonyms:

subservience
Main Entry: royalty
Part of Speech: noun
Definition: sovereignty

Synonyms:

aristocracy, authority, distinction, eminence, greatness, kingship, nobility, power, primacy, queenship, rank, supremacy, the crown
Related Words
Main Entry: supremacy
Part of Speech: noun
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Adjectives:
beyond compare, beyond comparison, crowning, culminating, dioristically, distinguished, egregious, enlarged, exceeding, exemplary, eximious, first, great, greater, greatest, higher, incomparable, increased, inexsuperable, inimitable, insigne, invictive, major, matchless, more than a match for, nonesuch, nonpareil, palmary, paramount, peerless, preeminent, pukka, ratherest, second to none, signate, skookum, sovereign, superior, superlative, supreme, transcendent, transcendental, ultra, unapproached, unequaled, unparagoned, unparalleled, unrivaled, unsurpassed, utmost, vaulting, without parallel
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