Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Greatest in power, authority, or rank; paramount or dominant.
- adj. Greatest in importance, degree, significance, character, or achievement.
- adj. Ultimate; final: the supreme sacrifice.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Highest, especially in authority; holding the highest place in government or power.
- Highest; highest or most extreme, as to degree, import, etc.; greatest possible; utmost: as, supreme love or wisdom; a supreme hour; supreme baseness.
- Last.
- Synonyms and Greatest, first, leading, principal, chief, predominant, paramount, superlative. Supreme is much stronger than any of these.
- n. The highest point. [Rare.]
- n. The chief; the superior.
- n. [capitalized] With the definite article, the Supreme Being. See phrase above.
Wiktionary
- adj. Dominant, having power over all others.
- adj. At the greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.
- v. transitive (cooking) To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds.
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.
- adj. Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense).
- adj. (Bot.) Situated at the highest part or point.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. greatest in status or authority or power
- adj. final or last in your life or progress
- adj. highest in excellence or achievement
- adj. greatest or maximal in degree; extreme.
Etymologies
- From Middle French suprême, from Latin supremus, superlative of superus ("that is above"). (Wiktionary)
- Latin suprēmus, superlative of superus, upper, from super, over; see uper in Indo-European roots. (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)
Examples
“The phrases "most supreme," and "chiefest," in the first sentence, are incorrect, because _supreme_ and _chief_ are in the superlative degree without having the superlative form superadded, which addition makes them double superlatives.”
“_still_ the _Sovereign_, and this renders the President absolute, because he is the representative of the supreme will of the _supreme”
“KCNA uses the euphemism "supreme dignity" to refer to the Kim family.”
The Wall Street Journal: Campaign Seeks to Bolster North Korea's New Leader
“The word supreme is derived from two Sanskrit words that describe the highest state of Divine love and sweet service.”
“But the big question that needs to be asked to him, is why would you ever take a step back and be president once you've had the title supreme allied commander?”
“Nawaz says bin Laden's death offers what he calls a "supreme opportunity" to improve the U.S.”
Voice of America: Uproar Over bin Laden Hideout Strains US-Pakistan Relations
“If everything is in balance, what they refer to as supreme equilibrium exists.”
“No drama on the stage is a success unless it has what we call a supreme moment; and the drama of our individual lives can not be really interesting or important unless it has some moments when we live intensely, when we live longer than some persons live in years; moments that settle our purpose and destiny.”
“Constitution which we call supreme can, of itself, be amended -- can, indeed, itself be set aside by its own servants, as was proved in that very war whose memory is still in our minds.”
“It's very important I think that you keep your body in supreme health during pregnancy so that you give your baby the best chance of being as healthy as possible.”
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Pleasing words
A list of miscellaneous words, fitting in no exact theme, that I happen to enjoy.
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cheerful-sounding words
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Citrus
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legacy of ashes
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Chief (adjective)
Words meaning chief (adjective)
principal, prime, cardinal, paramount, supreme, premier, predominant, arch, preeminent, superior
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