English Dictionary

superior

/suːˈpɪə.ɹi.ə/

adj

Of high standard or quality. / Greater in size or power. / (superior to) Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by. / Greater or better than average.

The hotel offers superior accommodations with luxurious amenities.

意味（1）

Of high standard or quality.

意味（2）

Greater in size or power.

意味（3）

(superior to) 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.

意味（4）

Greater or better than average.

意味（5）

Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).

意味（6）

(typography) Printed in superscript.

a superior figure or letter

意味（7）

(anatomy, medicine) Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.

意味（8）

(botany) (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.

意味（9）

(botany) (of an ovary) Above and free from the other floral organs.

意味（10）

(botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.

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(botany) (of the radicle) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.

意味（12）

(taxonomy) More comprehensive.

A genus is superior to a species.

意味（13）

Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.

意味（14）

(astronomy) (of a planet) Closer to the Earth than to the Sun.