Regal vs Superb - What's the difference?
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Of or having to do with royalty.
* (John Milton) (1608-1674)
Befitting a king, queen, emperor, or empress.
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First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
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*:Captain Edward Carlisle; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
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(lb) Haughty.
*1858 , (Julia Kavanagh), Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2 (p.235):
*:A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.
Regal is a related term of superb.
As a noun regal
is shelf.As an adjective superb is
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Alternative forms
* regall (obsolete)Adjective
(en adjective)- He made a scorn of his regal oath.
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