Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Of unusually high quality; excellent: a superb wine; superb skill.
- adj. Majestic; imposing: The cheetah is a superb animal.
- adj. Rich; luxurious.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Proud; haughty; arrogant.
- Grand; lofty; magnificent; august; stately; splendid.
- Rich; elegant; sumptuous; showy: as, superb furniture or decorations.
- Very fine; first-rate: as, a superb exhibition.
- Synonyms Magnificent, Splendid, etc. (see grand), noble, beautiful, exquisite.
Wiktionary
- adj. first-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good
- adj. dated haughty
GNU Webster's 1913
WordNet 3.0
- adj. of surpassing excellence
- adj. surpassingly good
Etymologies
- From Latin superbus. (Wiktionary)
- Latin superbus, arrogant, superior; see uper in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“Suzanne, Doug's wife, a superb, but I really mean _superb _blonde on the classic Hollywood pattern, had stood up and said, "All right, girls.”
“That is what we call a superb message board, I barely care to read out an entire forum section but this message board was successful in getting my interest and trust me, That?”
“In doing so, the authors will attempt to determine whether the U.S. government's characterization of Vietnamese cooperation as "superb" is warranted.”
“To his superb (both in the ordinary sense in which the word superb means "superb" and in the Corrine Brown sense in which the word superb means "superior") arguments I would add only one further point in support of the proper position:”
“Tomorrow, we are venturing out into the Mekong Delta, where, after two restful nights in superb accommodations, we will be bedding down in decidedly less luxurious digs.”
The Huffington Post: Monique Stringfellow: Sensible Splurge: When Not to Cut Corners on Lodging
“Miami head coach Eric Spoelstra says all three of his star players showed up to training camp "in superb shape.”
Voice of America: Miami's 'Big Three' Anxious for NBA Season
“Hmmm, let's see, the Democratic smear machine in superb working order, personal attack after personal attack on her as well as her entire family.”
DNC reacts: Palin decision 'continues a pattern of bizarre behavior'
“Also superb is the Miami police officer struggling with “The Spider Kiss” mad disease spreading amidst residents in which an outbreak of insane human behavior in South Florida proves to have strange beastly origins.”
Old Devil Moon-Christopher Fowler « The Merry Genre Go Round Reviews
“To have a unique combination of an extremely rare dated gold coin, with a six figure value in superb condition, that is also a mint error (struck on a 3 Cent Nickel planchet) is a once-in-a-lifetime opportunity.”
Unusual Items : Unique Quarter Eagle Struck on 3 Cent Nickel Planchet : Coin Collecting News
“That is simply because the upscaling mechanism of the High definition DVD players and blu-rays are too good, and they ended ordinary DVDs in superb colour and resolution.”
Lists
These user-created lists contain the word ‘superb’.
-
Interesting words
A list of words that are odd or words that I have looked up.
concupiscence, brize, scree, scoria, forestaff, spanaemia, valetudinarianism, distasture, pyrethrum, laudanum, gentian, bicameral and 11184 more...
-
Her
beautiful, lovely, magnificent, exquisite, marvelous, charming, delicate, delightful, elegant, divine, resplendant, radiant and 6 more...
-
big book gre
abase, abbess, abbey, abbot, abdicate, abdomen, abdominal, abduction, abed, aberration, abet, abeyance and 6691 more...
-
Words of Praise
Please contribute lots of panegyrical words—preferably such that are of universal use.
gorgeous, flamboyant, grand, magnificent, iridescent, incandescent, splendorous, coruscating, immaculate, magniloquent, sublime, scintillating and 33 more...
-
Twitter favorites
The new favourite words of people on Twitter.
A script searches Twitter for "X is my new favorite word" and adds it to this list.
See also:
unfathomably, glice, cuh, fab, ciggaty, doll, thuggin, oxymoronic, pineapple, succubutt, griming, cheeky and 2369 more... -
BuffaloBen's Words
sycamore, wipfel, rohlingsspindel, gorgeous, flamboyance, anschmiegen, pengpeng, zuckerhut, revolver, troubleshooter, breeze, dandy and 228 more...
-
Words I Know
List of most of the words I've learned
garner, abase, abate, abdicate, abduct, aberration, abet, abhor, abide, abject, abjure, abnegation and 1046 more...
-
eggplantia5's Words
scintillate, marvel, cranberry, oscillate, triumph, bamboozle, grimace, magical, book, hexagon, cipher, compendium and 2727 more...
-
kat's words
ecumenical, cacophony, clatter, marimba, bamboo, saffron, slice, mercurial, pomegranate, cranky, slipshod, scritch and 511 more...
-
The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
-
Words from "Pearls Before Breakfast"
nondescript, shrewd, seed money, bureaucrat, indeterminate, fungible, cupidity, banal, grandeur, utilitarian, buffer, ecstatic and 123 more...
-
GRE AWA
escalating, vehement, vehemence, hostility, paparazzi, regime, irrespective, scoop, exaggerated, overblown, unfetter, scrupulous and 272 more...
-
mango22's Words
avalanche, apple, arrividerci, awry, adamant, asunder, barter, beloved, calm, cataclysmic, catastrophe, coat and 143 more...
-
my dictionary
able, abnormally, abroad, absent, abstract, acceptable, acceptance, access, accessible, accession, according to, account and 4551 more...
-
kingrat47's Words
procrustean, devolution, cacophony, hippopotamus, crunch, beware, chortled, sibilant, subtle, undermine, acromegaly, acropolis and 645 more...
-
Nullologue
nullologue, vaudeville, debauchery, debauched, libertine, nothing, dhadak, tz pf, nothingology, goodbyeology, sharmuta, manifesto and 866 more...
Tweets
Looking for tweets for superb.
Comments
No comments yet...
Log in or sign up to get involved in the conversation. It's quick and easy.