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| 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 |
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| 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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| Main Entry: | advantage |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | benefit, favored position or circumstance |
| Synonyms: | aid, ascendancy, asset, assistance, authority, avail, blessing, boon, break, choice, comfort, convenience, dominance, edge, eminence, favor, gain, good, gratification, help, hold, improvement, influence, interest, lead, leeway, leverage, luck, mastery, odds, position, power, precedence, preference, prestige, prevalence, profit, protection, recognition, resources, return, sanction, starting, superiority, support, supremacy, upper hand*, utility, wealth, expediency, leg-up, pre-eminence |
| Notes: | advantage is a relatively favorable position; superiority of means while vantage is a position, condition, or opportunity that is likely to provide superiority or an advantage |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, drawback, handicap, hindrance, loss, obstacle, restriction |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | ascendancy/ascendency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domination |
| Synonyms: | advantage, authority, command, control, dominance, dominion, edge, influence, jump*, mastery, power, predominance, prevalence, reign, rule, sovereignty, superiority, supremacy, sway, upper hand*, leg up, on top, preeminence, prepotence, whip hand |
| Antonyms: | decline, inferiority, subordination, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | control |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | command, mastery |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authority, bridle, charge, check, clout, containment, curb, determination, direction, discipline, domination, dominion, driver's seat, force, government, guidance, inside track, juice, jurisdiction, limitation, management, manipulation, might, oversight, predomination, qualification, regimentation, regulation, restraint, restriction, ropes, rule, strings, subjection, subordination, superintendence, supervision, supremacy, sway, upper hand*, weight, wire pulling |
| Antonyms: | helplessness, powerlessness, relinquishment, renouncement, weakness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | domination |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | control; subjection |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authority, command, despotism, dictatorship, dominance, dominion, influence, jurisdiction, might, oppression, power, repression, rule, sovereignty, subordination, superiority, suppression, supremacy, sway, tyranny, preponderancy, prepotence, prepotency, strings |
| Antonyms: | following, submission, surrender, yielding |
| Main Entry: | dominion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | area of rule; authority |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, authorization, bailiwick, command, commission, control, country, district, domain, dominance, domination, empire, field, government, jurisdiction, management, power, prerogative, privilege, property, province, realm, regency, regiment, regimentation, region, reign, rule, seniority, sovereignty, sphere, state, supremacy, sway, terrain, territory, turf, walk, demesne, enclave, preeminence, prepotence, prepotency, stomping grounds |
| Antonyms: | outside |
| Main Entry: | empire |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | place ruled by sovereign; rule |
| Synonyms: | authority, command, commonwealth, control, domain, dominion, federation, government, people, power, realm, sovereignty, supremacy, sway, union |
| Main Entry: | excellence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superiority |
| Synonyms: | éclat, arete, class, distinction, eminence, goodness, greatness, merit, perfection, purity, quality, supremacy, virtue, worth, excellency, fineness, high quality, preeminence, superbness, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | failure, imperfection, inferiority |
| Main Entry: | government |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | management, administration |
| Synonyms: | Uncle Sam*, authority, bureaucracy, command, control, direction, domination, dominion, empire, execution, executive, guidance, influence, jurisdiction, law, ministry, patronage, politics, power, predominance, regency, regime, regimentation, regulation, restraint, rule, sovereignty, state, superiority, supervision, supremacy, sway, union, Washington, governance, political practice, polity, powers-that-be, presidency, statecraft, superintendence, the feds |
| Antonyms: | anarchy, chaos, coup, insurrection, lawlessness, mutiny, revolt, revolution |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | influence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | power, authority |
| Synonyms: | access, agency, ascendancy, character, clout, command, consequence, control, credit, direction, domination, dominion, drag, effect, esteem, fame, fix, force, grease*, guidance, hold, impact, importance, imprint, juice*, leadership, leverage, magnetism, mark, moment, money, monopoly, network, notoriety, predominance, prerogative, pressure, prestige, prominence, pull, repercussion, reputation, rule, significance, spell, supremacy, sway, weight*, connections, in, ropes |
| Antonyms: | impotence, incapacity, inferiority, weakness, powerlessness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | leadership |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | guidance |
| Synonyms: | administration, authority, capacity, command, control, conveyance, direction, domination, foresight, hegemony, influence, initiative, management, power, primacy, skill, superiority, supremacy, sway, conduction, directorship, pilotage, preeminence, superintendency |
| Main Entry: | maximum |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | upper limit, greatest amount |
| Synonyms: | apex, apogee, ceiling, climax, crest, culmination, extremity, height, most, nonpareil, peak, pinnacle, record, summit, supremacy, top, utmost, uttermost, zenith, max, maxi, preeminence, the end |
| Antonyms: | least, low, minimum, smallest |
| Main Entry: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
| Synonyms: | accomplishment, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, evolution, exactness, excellence, finish, fulfillment, ideal, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, precision, purity, quality, realization, superiority, supremacy, virtue, wholeness, achieving, entireness, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finishing, idealism, impeccability, perfectness, phoenix, ripeness, sublimity, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, worthlessness, incompleteness, uselessness |
| Main Entry: | precedence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | highest in rank; first in order |
| Synonyms: | lead, preference, primary, priority, rank, seniority, superiority, supremacy, antecedence, anteposition, earliness, precedency, precession, preeminence, preexistence, prevenience, previousness |
| Antonyms: | inferiority, last, lowest |
| Main Entry: | priority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first concern |
| Synonyms: | arrangement, lead, order, precedence, preference, prerogative, rank, right of way, seniority, superiority, supremacy, antecedence, crash project, greatest importance, preeminence, previousness, transcendence |
| Antonyms: | unimportance |
| Main Entry: | reign |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | rule, dominion |
| Synonyms: | administration, ascendancy, command, control, dynasty, empire, hegemony, influence, monarchy, power, regime, sovereignty, supremacy, sway, tenure, incumbency |
| Main Entry: | sovereignty |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | domination |
| Synonyms: | ascendancy, dominance, dominion, jurisdiction, primacy, supremacy, sway, ascendant, preeminence, prepotence, prepotency, supreme power |
| Antonyms: | submission |
| Main Entry: | superiority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, predominance |
| Synonyms: | ahead, ascendancy, authority, better, bulge, dominance, edge, eminence, excellence, influence, lead, nobility, perfection, position, power, preponderance, prestige, prevalence, pull, rank, spark, supremacy, top, upper hand*, victory, meliority, predomination, preeminence, transcendence, vantage, whip hand |
| Antonyms: | disadvantage, inferiority, subservience |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | upper hand |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | major advantage |
| Synonyms: | advantage, authority, benefit, break, control, dominance, driver's seat, edge, favor, gain, help, improvement, lead, leg up, leverage, rule, superiority, supremacy, trump hand, whip hand |
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