Topic Thesaurus
Roget's Thesaurus

Superiority (Supremacy)

Nouns
  • superiority, majority
  • greatness etc. Greatness
  • advantage
  • pull
  • preponderance, preponderation
  • vantage ground, prevalence, partiality
  • personal superiority
  • nobility etc. (rank) Nobility
  • Triton among the minnows, captain
  • crackajack [U.S.]. supremacy, preeminence
  • lead
  • maximum
  • record
  • climax
  • culmination etc. (summit) Summit
  • transcendence
  • lion's share, Benjamin's mess
  • excess, surplus etc. (remainder) [Thing remaining.] Remainder
  • (redundancy) Redundancy.
Verbs
  • be superior etc. adj.
  • exceed, excel, transcend
  • outdo, outbalance, outweigh, outrank, outrival, out-Herod
  • pass, surpass, get ahead of
  • over-top, override, overpass, overbalance, overweigh, overmatch
  • top, o'ertop, cap, beat, cut out
  • beat hollow
  • outstrip etc. [Motion beyond] Transcursion
  • eclipse, throw into the shade, take the shine out of, outshine, put one's nose out of joint
  • have the upper hand, have the whip hand of, have the advantage
  • turn the scale, kick the beam
  • play first fiddle etc. (importance) Importance
  • preponderate, predominate, prevail
  • precede, take precedence, come first
  • come to a head, culminate
  • beat all others, c. bear the palm
  • break the record
  • take the cake [U.S.]. become larger, render larger etc. (increase) Increase, (expand) Expansion.
Adjectives
  • superior, greater, major, higher
  • exceeding etc. v.
  • great etc. Greatness
  • distinguished
  • vaulting
  • more than a match for. supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning
  • first-rate etc. (important) Importance, (excellent) [Capability of producing good. Good qualities.] Goodness
  • unrivaled peerless, matchless
  • none such, second to none
  • unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed
  • superlative, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel
  • beyond compare, beyond comparison
  • culminating etc. (topmost) Summit
  • transcendent, transcendental
  • more catholic than the Pope increased etc. (added to) Increase
  • enlarged etc. (expanded) Expansion.
Adverbs
  • beyond, more, over
  • over the mark, above the mark
  • above par
  • upwards of, in advance of
  • over and above
  • at the top of the scale, at its height. [in a superior or supreme degree] eminently, egregiously, preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all, of all things, the most, to crown all, par excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea, still more.
Phrases
  • I shall not look upon his like again" [Hamlet]