superb

Valid in Scrabble

Scrabble points
10
Words With Friends
13
Letters
6
Pronunciation
/suːˈpɜːb/
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/suːˈpɜːb/ · /sjuːˈpɜːb/ · /sʉwˈpəːb/ · /suˈpɝb/ · /səˈpɝb/ · /sʉˈpɛɾb/ · /sɪʊˈpøːb/

Definition of superb

3 senses · 1 part of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
    “This champagne is superb.”
    “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.”
    “The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.”
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adj

  1. First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
    “This champagne is superb.”
    “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.”
    “The hundredodd pages of photographs provide superb iconography of artistic collaboration and its rewards.”
  2. Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
    “a superb edifice;  a superb colonnade”
  3. (dated)Haughty.
    “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.”

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Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin superbus.

Anagrams of superb

3 plays · some not in Scrabble

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