| Main Entry: | excellence |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superiority |
Synonyms: |
arete, class, distinction, eminence, excellency, fineness, goodness, greatness, high quality, merit, perfection, preeminence, purity, quality, superbness, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, worth, éclat |
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failure, imperfection, inferiority |
| Main Entry: | perfection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | achievement, completeness |
Synonyms: |
accomplishment, achieving, acme, arete, completion, consummation, crown, ending, entireness, evolution, exactness, excellence, excellency, exquisiteness, faultlessness, finish, finishing, fulfillment, ideal, idealism, impeccability, integrity, maturity, merit, paragon, perfectness, phoenix, precision, purity, quality, realization, ripeness, sublimity, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, wholeness |
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damage, deficiency, flaw, imperfection, incompleteness, uselessness, worthlessness |
| Main Entry: | priority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | first concern |
Synonyms: |
antecedence, arrangement, crash project, greatest importance, lead, order, precedence, preeminence, preference, prerogative, previousness, rank, right of way, seniority, superiority, supremacy, transcendence |
Antonyms: |
unimportance |
| Main Entry: | superiority |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | advantage, predominance |
Synonyms: |
ahead, ascendancy, authority, better, bulge, dominance, edge, eminence, excellence, influence, lead, meliority, nobility, perfection, position, power, predomination, preeminence, preponderance, prestige, prevalence, pull, rank, spark, supremacy, top, transcendence, upper hand, vantage, victory, whip hand |
Antonyms: |
disadvantage, inferiority, subservience |
| 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: | transcendency |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | superior excellence |
Synonyms: |
supereminence, superiority, supremacy, transcendence |
| Main Entry: | superbness |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | excellence |
Synonyms: |
arete, class, distinction, eminence, excellency, fineness, goodness, greatness, high quality, merit, perfection, preeminence, purity, quality, superiority, supremacy, transcendence, virtue, worth, éclat |
| 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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| Concept: | Superiority. [Supremacy] |
| Category: | 2. COMPARATIVE QUANTITY; QUANTITY BY COMPARISON WITH A SIMILAR OBJECT |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
superiority, majority; greatness; advantage; pull; preponderance, preponderation; vantage ground, prevalence, partiality; personal superiority; nobility (rank); Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain; crackerjack., supremacy, preeminence; lead; maximum; record; climax; culmination (summit); transcendence; ne plus ultra; lion's share, Benjamin's mess; excess, surplus (remainder); (redundance).
-verbs
be superior; exceed, excel, transcend; outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod; pass, surpass, get ahead of; overtop, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch; top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out; beat hollow; outstrip; eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint; have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage; turn the scale, kick the beam; play first fiddle (importance); preponderate, predominate, prevail; precede, take precedence, come first; come to a head, culminate; beat all others, bear the palm; break the record; take the cake., become larger, render larger (increase) [more], (expand) [more].
-adjectives
superior, greater, major, higher; exceeding; great; distinguished, ultra; vaulting; more than a match for., supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning; first-rate (important) [more], (excellent) [more]; unrivaled peerless, matchless; none such, second to none, sans pareil; unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed; superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra; beyond compare, beyond comparison; culminating (topmost); transcendent, transcendental; plus royaliste que le Roi, more catholic than the Pope, increased (added to); enlarged (expanded).
-adverbs
beyond, more, over; over the mark, above the mark; above par; upwards of, in advance of; over and above; at the top of the scale, at its height., [in a superior or supreme degree] eminently, egregiously, preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all, of all things, the most, to crown all, par excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea, still more.
-phrases
"I shall not look upon his like again" [Hamlet]; deos fortioribus addesse [Tacitus]. [more]
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Antonyms: |
inferiority |
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| Concept: | Priority. |
| Category: | 2. RELATIVE TIME; Time with reference to succession |
Synonyms: |
-nouns
priority, antecedence, anteriority, precedence, pre-existence; precession; precursor; the past; premises.
-verbs
precede, come before; forerun; go before (lead); preexist; dawn; presage; herald, usher in., be beforehand (be early); steal a march upon, anticipate, forestall; have the start, gain the start.
-adjectives
prior, previous; preceding, precedent; anterior, antecedent; pre-existing, pre-existent; former, foregoing; before-mentioned, above-mentioned; aforesaid, said; introductory (precursory).
-adverbs
before, prior to; earlier; previously; afore, aforehand, beforehand, ere, theretofore, erewhile; ere then, ere now, before then, before now; erewhile, already, yet, beforehand; on the eve of.
-phrases
prior tempore prior jure.
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Antonyms: |
posteriority |
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