superior

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noun

ADJECTIVE

▪ direct, immediate

▪

The form has to be signed by your immediate superior.

▪ intellectual, moral, social

▪ military, religious

VERB + SUPERIOR

▪ inform, tell

▪ report sb/sth to

▪

She threatened to report the assistant to his superiors.

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adj.

VERBS

▪ be, look, prove (yourself), seem

▪ feel (yourself)

▪

She felt (herself) superior to the other children.

▪ become

▪ make sth

▪

What is it that makes this technique superior?

▪ consider sth, see sth as

▪

I don't see either product as superior to the other.

ADVERB

▪ clearly, distinctly, far, greatly, markedly, vastly

▪

The new products are far superior to the old ones.

▪

They defeated a greatly superior Roman army.

▪ altogether, infinitely

▪

Plainly, you possess an altogether superior intellect.

▪

The house was infinitely superior to the kind of thing most men of my age could aspire to.

▪ rather, slightly, somewhat

▪ inherently, intrinsically, naturally

▪ supposedly

▪ undoubtedly

▪ numerically

▪

the numerically superior (= larger in numbers) British forces

▪ genetically, intellectually, morally, socially, technically, technologically (esp. AmE)

PREPOSITION

▪ in

▪

a microwave that is vastly superior in design to all other models

▪ to

▪

She felt socially superior to the rest of the group.

Superior is used with these nouns: ↑court, ↑force, ↑intellect, ↑officer, ↑quality, ↑rank, ↑result, ↑skill, ↑status, ↑strength