Superb vs Incomparable - What's the difference?
superb | incomparable | 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.
So much better than another as to be beyond comparison; matchless or unsurpassed.
* , De Profundis , (1909), Robert Baldwin Ross, ed., page 112:
(rare) Not able to be compared.
Superb is a related term of incomparable.
As adjectives the difference between superb and incomparable
is that superb is while incomparable is so much better than another as to be beyond comparison; matchless or unsurpassed.superb
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Adjective
(er)Synonyms
* excellent * superlativeDerived terms
* superblyincomparable
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Adjective
(en adjective)- I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.