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Superb vs Incomparable - What's the difference?

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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

English

Adjective

(er)
  • 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.
  • :
  • (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.
  • Synonyms

    * excellent * superlative

    Derived terms

    * superbly

    incomparable

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • So much better than another as to be beyond comparison; matchless or unsurpassed.
  • * , De Profundis , (1909), Robert Baldwin Ross, ed., page 112:
  • 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.
  • (rare) Not able to be compared.
  • Usage notes

    * Using (more)'' or ''(most)'' with ''incomparable , though often disapproved, is relatively common. Such uses may once have only been accepted for poetic effect, but are now widespread. * Despite its apparently absolute meaning, incomparable'' is often used as if there were degrees of incomparability, occurring with adverbs such as ''(so)'' and ''(very) .

    Derived terms

    * incomparability