superior

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义
英 /suːˈpɪə.ɹi.ə/    美 /sʊˈpɪɹ.i.ɚ/|/sə-/

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.; The senior person in a monastic community.
  2. A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.; The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.
  3. A superior letter, figure, or symbol.
  4. 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. historical
形容词 adj.
  1. Higher in rank, status, or quality.
    — Rebecca had always thought shorts were far superior to pants, as they didn't constantly make her legs itch.
  2. Higher in rank, status, or quality.; Of high standard or quality.
    — She always treated (her husband) as a boy, which he was, and as a fool, which he was not, thinking herself so immeasurably superior to him that she neglected opportunity after opportunity of establishing her rule.
  3. Higher in rank, status, or quality.; Greater in size or power.
  4. Higher in rank, status, or quality.; Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.
    — There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy […]than a brave man superior to his sufferings.
  5. Higher in rank, status, or quality.; Greater or better than average.
  6. Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).
  7. Printed in superscript.
    — a superior figure or letter
  8. Located above or out; higher in position.
    — the superior jaw; the superior part of an image
  9. Located above or out; higher in position.; Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.
  10. Located above or out; higher in position.; (of a calyx) 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.
  11. Located above or out; higher in position.; (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.
  12. Located above or out; higher in position.; Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.
  13. Located above or out; higher in position.; (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.
  14. More comprehensive.
    — A genus is superior to a species.
  15. Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.
  16. Having a wider orbit around the Sun; typically with respect to the Earth.

词形变化

more superior comparative most superior superlative superiour alternative,UK,obsolete superiors plural superiour alternative,UK,obsolete

词汇关系

近义词
crowning ferior foremost greater higher major paramount preeminent superior supreme utmost vaulting
反义词
inferior equivalent
上位词
unequal
衍生词
anterior superior alveolar artery anterior superior iliac spine anterosuperior father superior fultura superior general superior highly superior autobiographical memory inferosuperior Lake Superior laterosuperior limit superior mediosuperior mother superior nonsuperior Peover Superior posterior superior alveolar artery posterosuperior Superia superior alveolar nerve superior auricular muscle superior autobiographical memory superior carotid triangle superior cerebellar artery superior cervical ganglion superior colliculus superior court superioress superior general superior good superior highly composite number superior hypophyseal artery superiority superiorization superior landlord superior laryngeal artery superior laryngeal nerve superior lease superior letter superiorly superior mesenteric artery superior mesenteric artery syndrome superior mesenteric vein superiormost superior nasal concha superiorness superior oblique superior oblique muscle superior olivary complex superior orbital fissure superior petrosal sinus superior pharyngeal constrictor superior planet superior rectus superior sagittal sinus superiorship superior tarsal superior tarsal muscle superior tenant superior thyroid artery superior vena cava supero- temporosuperior unsuperior
相关词
auricularis superior Homo superior levator labii superioris levator labii superioris alaeque nasi levator palpebrae superioris respondeat superior Superior
并列词
noninferior

词源

词源 1
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upper”).
词源 2
From Middle English, borrowed from Old French superiour, from Latin superior (“higher, upper”).
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