superb

Borrowed from Latin superbus.

• (General American) IPA^(key): /suˈpɝb/, /səˈpɝb/
• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /sjuːˈpɜːb/, /suːˈpɜːb/

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• Rhymes: -ɜː(ɹ)b
• Hyphenation: su‧perb

superb (comparative superber, superlative superbest)

1. First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.

   This champagne is superb.

   • 1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, OCLC 639762314, page 0105:

     Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; 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.

2. Grand; magnificent; august; stately.

   a superb edifice;  a superb colonnade

3. (dated) 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.

• excellent
• superlative

• superbly

• BUPERS, Repubs

• süperb

Borrowed from French superbe, from Latin superbus.

superb (not comparable)

1. superb

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