(a.) Grand; magnificent; august; stately; as, a superb edifice; a superb colonnade.
(a.) Rich; elegant; as, superb furniture or decorations.
(a.) Showy; excellent; grand; as, a superb exhibition.
Example Sentences:
(1) After darting in from the left the forward fired a low shot past Martínez at the near post to crown a superb personal performance.
(2) This assay provides superb reproducibility and a recovery rate without the influence of any anti-coagulants and hemolysis.
(3) Ibrahimovic only came alive in the second half, when he had a hand in Rashford’s goal and also drew a superb save from Heurelho Gomes with a far-post header.
(4) The home side looked to have done enough to battle to victory after taking an early lead through a superb free-kick by the full-back Aaron Cresswell.
(5) While it was always possible to wash down the superb Rhodesian beef with fine Portuguese and South African wines at several hotels, Salisbury had difficulty living up to its nickname of Surbiton in the Bush.
(6) Shilton has had scarcely anything to do all night but now produces a superb save from Klinsmann.
(7) The wins were a team effort, combining superb starting pitching with a suddenly revitalized offense, one that has delivered a staggering 12th-fewest runs in the American League this season.
(8) MRI is capable of demonstrating superb anatomic detail of the appendicular skeleton and articulations.
(9) All of Goyrand's work was edited by Masson in 1870, including a superb case report of giant elephantiasis of the penis and scrotum, a study on cleft lip and the technique of using collodion bands to close large wounds [corrected].
(10) His finishing, however, left much to be desired, and he missed another good chance when played through by a superb pass from the inventive Allen.
(11) Brad Guzan produced a superb save to deny Ayew, rushing off his line to smother a left-foot shot from six yards out, and 33 seconds later the Swansea forward’s brother had the ball in the net at the other end.
(12) How they needed a piece of quality here and it was Mahrez who provided it, the Algeria international scoring with a superb strike.
(13) It was a superb team goal, showed Arsenal at their counterattacking best, and emphasised the chasm in class.
(14) His last film (Something in the Air) played at Venice, though he was in Cannes as recently as 2010 with his superb, made-for-TV thriller Carlos.
(15) First lit in 1817, the lighthouse opened to visitors for day tours and overnight stays earlier this year and has superb coastal walks and beaches nearby.
(16) If Hart was hardly hyperactive either the England goalkeeper must still have been mightily relieved to see Pablo Zabaleta make a superb clearance from Townsend’s cross just as Mitrovic, on as a substitute, seemed likely to apply his forehead to it.
(17) Facebook Twitter Pinterest Formation: ‘Here, this superstar locates herself in time and place – in other words, in her own political history.’ Photograph: YouTube That this played out on mainstream TV is significant, as is the superb new video for Formation.
(18) In the closing minutes Mignolet produced a superb save to deny Bakambu and Moreno broke the length of the field following a Villarreal corner only to slice wide from 12 yards.
(19) That followed a confident start by Villa during which a header by Ciaran Clark had required a superb save from Wojciech Szczesny to keep it out.
(20) Then Valeri's superb improvised finish (he specializes in those, it seems) doubled the lead on the night, and Portland are cruising.
Superlative
Definition:
(a.) Lifted up to the highest degree; most eminent; surpassing all other; supreme; as, superlative wisdom or prudence; a woman of superlative beauty; the superlative glory of the divine character.
(a.) Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright.
(n.) That which is highest or most eminent; the utmost degree.
(n.) The superlative degree of adjectives and adverbs; also, a form or word by which the superlative degree is expressed; as, strongest, wisest, most stormy, least windy, are all superlatives.
Example Sentences:
(1) The world is in awe of China’s relentless capacity to produce gargantuan cities, each outdoing the most recent superlative that describes its predecessor.
(2) This is the temple complex of the Ness of Brodgar, and its size, complexity and sophistication have left archaeologists desperately struggling to find superlatives to describe the wonders they found there.
(3) That's a superlative goal from the 31-year-old debutant, who is now assured of a place in history even if he never wins another cap again in his life.
(4) He maintained both that this once-unavoidable change was no longer needed at all, owing to his superlative handling of the wider public finances, and – at the same time – that the cut was eventually happening anyway, as universal credit replaces tax credits.
(5) But according to the few Trump supporters willing to speak on the record – all of whom speak in superlatives of their adopted country and its people – Mexicans simply misunderstand the real-estate mogul.
(6) Increasingly, the paranoid defensiveness of the zealots cannot be reconciled with the righteous anger of those who believe every superlative performance must be suspect.
(7) The superlative regenerative capacity of rodent axons may limit the applicability of this model to human nerve tissue.
(8) We turn, as ever, to the superlative Complete Review, where MA Orthofer's reading of the Nobel betting patterns is legendary.
(9) "We're a bit suspicious of people who use too many superlatives," added guitarist Mark Webber.
(10) First Ramsey, enjoying his most prolific season under Wenger, restored his side's lead courtesy of a superlative volley after connecting with Carl Jenkinson's cross.
(11) application of comparative and superlative forms of an adjective to nonwords.
(12) I was right on deadline and in a panic not only to find fresh superlatives for the most electric hour of sport I had ever witnessed, but to string together any kind of coherent sentence at all.
(13) Moses has needed more than the occasional superlative of late.
(14) Steaua Bucharest 0-5 Manchester City: Champions League play-off – as it happened Read more Before the superlatives start to flow, perhaps it should be taken into account that Steaua Bucharest were generous opponents for a team with a new manager to impress.
(15) It's not quite believable that height is unimportant to Sellar, although he's right that it's fatuous to chase superlatives, given that the Shard does not quite equal the 82-year-old Chrysler building in New York.
(16) Here he is on the Nasty Party in 1835, in a letter to Catherine Hogarth (soon to take the name Dickens, as his wife): "... a ruthless set of bloody-minded villains... perfect savage... superlative blackguards..." Two days later he ended another letter: "P.S.
(17) I don't think there's a superlative left to describe Suárez.
(18) "Of course," he says; he knew "from the very beginning" that his was a "superlative" talent.
(19) What happened next was so extraordinary it is difficult to know if there are enough superlatives in existence to do it justice.
(20) In a superlative run of clichés – "gone with the wind", "one with Nineveh", "in a word" – Wodehouse revels in, and revives, the contained sphere of an exhausted language (a "small world" of its own) and makes it a little larger.