Superb vs Smashing - What's the difference?
superb | smashing | Related terms |
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.
Serving to smash (something).
(British informal ) Wonderful, very good or impressive.
Gerund: The action of the verb to smash .
Superb is a related term of smashing.
As adjectives the difference between superb and smashing
is that superb is while smashing is serving to smash (something).As a noun smashing is
gerund: the action of the verb to smash .As a verb smashing is
.superb
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Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* excellent * superlativeDerived terms
* superblysmashing
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Adjective
(en adjective)- The boxer delivered a smashing blow to his opponent's head.
- We had a smashing time at the zoo.
Noun
(en noun)- Some Greek dance is traditionally accompanied by the smashing of crockery.