Adjective

(en adjective)

Higher in quality.

Higher in rank.

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, title= The Mirror and the Lamp , passage=There were many wooden chairs for the bulk of his visitors, and two wicker armchairs with red cloth cushions for superior people. From the packing-cases had emerged some Indian clubs, […], and all these articles […] made a scattered and untidy decoration that Mrs. Clough assiduously dusted and greatly cherished.}}

More comprehensive, as a term in classification.

A genus is superior to a species.

Located above.

the superior''' jaw; the '''superior part of an image

# (botany) Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.

# (botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem; posterior.

# (botany) Pointing toward the apex of the fruit; ascending; said of the radicle.

# (typography) Printed in superscript.

a superior figure or letter

Greater or better than average; extraordinary.

Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; with to .

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There is not in earth a spectacle more worthy than a great man superior to his sufferings.

Adjective

(en adjective)

(not comparable) Being the only one of its kind; unequaled, unparalleled or unmatched.

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, title=(The China Governess) , chapter=3 citation , passage=‘[…] There's every Staffordshire crime-piece ever made in this cabinet, and that's unique . The Van Hoyer Museum in New York hasn't that very rare second version of Maria Marten's Red Barn over there, nor the little Frederick George Manning—he was the criminal Dickens saw hanged on the roof of the gaol in Horsemonger Lane, by the way—’}}

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Of a feature, such that only one holder has it.

Particular, characteristic.

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(proscribed) Of a rare quality, unusual.

* {{quote-book, passage=And as I look back, it seems to me that we were fairly unique , the sixty of us, in that there wasn’t one good mixer in the bunch.

, title=For Esmé—With Love and Squalor , author=J.D. Salinger , year=1950}}