[
UK
/sˈuːpɐ/
]
[ US /ˈsupɝ/ ]
[ US /ˈsupɝ/ ]
ADJECTIVE
-
including more than a specified category
a super experiment -
of the highest quality
played top-notch tennis
a super party
she is absolutely tops
a first-rate golfer
an ace reporter
a crack shot
an athlete in tiptop condition -
extremely large
another super skyscraper
NOUN
- a caretaker for an apartment house; represents the owner as janitor and rent collector
ADVERB
-
to an extreme degree
the night was deathly cold
extremely unpleasant
she is super smart
as a child, I was deathly afraid of snakes
extremely cold
How To Use super In A Sentence
- Lovecraft dealt not with the supernatural but with the "supernormal," as Joshi puts it -- the unrealized side of material reality. The Lovecraft News Network
- Having drop-dead gorgeous, private, windowed offices makes it a lot easier to recruit the kinds of superstars that produce ten times as much as the merely brilliant software developers.
- She is "not a medium", we are told, but rather "a supersensory explorer who has been trained in the cosmic language of symbols for more than 20 years. British Blogs
- You may be trying to invoke the ‘echos from the supernal world’ but they're everywhere and where-ever people say they're doing magic there's a bit of truth there.
- Inhuman hours, back-stabbing competition, abuse by superiors; it's all familiar now.
- A poor game was redeemed in the second half by a couple of superb goals from Anthony Edwards.
- (Variety's Dennis Harvey called Mr. Friedman's onscreen persona "nebbishy"; The Boston Globe's Wesley Morris was a little nicer, saying, "The movie is the product of his big, shiny love of forgotten soul legends whom superstardom ... has eluded.") Did Pirated 'Wolverine' Review Get Fox 411's Roger Friedman Fired? [Update]
- The formation of coral terraces is interpreted as the product of approximately uniform long-term uplift superimposed on eustatic changes in sea level.
- The ether gradually absorbs oxygen from the atmosphere, being converted into acetic acid; this, by its superior affinities, reacts on the iodide present, converting it into acetate, with liberation of hydriodic acid; while this latter, under the influence of the atmospheric oxygen, is very rapidly converted into water and iodine. Notes and Queries, Number 227, March 4, 1854 A Medium of Inter-communication for Literary Men, Artists, Antiquaries, Genealogists, etc.
- It also has superb golf courses, so if you're a bit of a golf widow, leave him to tussle in the bunker while you slink off to the spa - it's connected to the hotel by a subterranean tunnel.