superiority

Roget category 33

1. Words expressing abstract relations
› 1.3. Quantity
›› 1.3.2. Comparative quantity

#33. [Supremacy.] Superiority

noun

superiority, majority — greatness etc. 31 — advantage — pull — preponderance, preponderation — vantage ground, prevalence, partiality — personal superiority — nobility etc. (rank) 875 — Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares [Lat.], nulli secundus [Lat.], captain — crackajack [U.S.].
supremacy, preeminence — lead — maximum — record — trikumia [Gr.], climax — culmination etc. (summit) 210 — transcendence — ne plus ultra [Lat.] — lion's share, Benjamin's mess — excess, surplus etc. (remainder) 40 — (redundancy) 641.

verb

be superior etc. adj. — exceed, excel, transcend — outdo, outbalance^†, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod — pass, surpass, get ahead of — over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch — top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out — beat hollow — outstrip etc. 303 — 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 etc. (importance) 642 — preponderate, predominate, prevail — precede, take precedence, come first — come to a head, culminate — beat all others, etc. bear the palm — break the record — take the cake [U.S.].
become larger, render larger etc. (increase) 35, (expand) 194.

adjective

superior, greater, major, higher — exceeding etc. v. — great etc. 31 — distinguished, ultra [Lat.] — vaulting — more than a match for.
supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning — first-rate etc. (important) 642, (excellent) 648 — unrivaled peerless, matchless — none such, second to none, sans pareil [Fr.] — unparagoned^†, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached^†, unsurpassed — superlative, inimitable facile princeps [Lat.], incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus [Lat.], ne plus ultra [Lat.] — beyond compare, beyond comparison — culminating etc. (topmost) 210 — transcendent, transcendental — plus royaliste que le Roi [Fr.], more catholic than the Pope increased etc. (added to) 35 — enlarged etc. (expanded) 194.

adverb

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, kat exochin [Gr.], par excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea, still more.

phrase

I shall not look upon his like again" [Hamlet]; deos fortioribus addesse [Lat.] [Tacitus].

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