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SUPREME
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Greatest in status or authority or power
Example:
a supreme tribunal
Synonyms:
sovereign; supreme
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Similar:
dominant (exercising influence or control)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Greatest or maximal in degree; extreme
Example:
His face assumed an expression of sublime conceit
Synonyms:
sublime; supreme
Classified under:
Similar:
maximal; maximum (the greatest or most complete or best possible)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Final or last in your life or progress
Example:
the supreme judgment
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Adjectives
Similar:
ultimate (furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Highest in excellence or achievement
Example:
supreme courage
Classified under:
Adjectives
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
Context examples:
During the winter of that year and the early spring of 1891, I saw in the papers that he had been engaged by the French government upon a matter of supreme importance, and I received two notes from Holmes, dated from Narbonne and from Nimes, from which I gathered that his stay in France was likely to be a long one.
(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
And now I turn to the last supreme eventful moment of our adventure.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
Now let’s turn to a very big day, December 15, when Jupiter will be in supreme harmony with Uranus.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
Then with a grand effort she rallied from the shock, and a supreme astonishment and indignation chased every other expression from her features.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
But Spitz, cold and calculating even in his supreme moods, left the pack and cut across a narrow neck of land where the creek made a long bend around.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
But I am afraid I had a supreme satisfaction, of a personal and professional nature, in taking charge of Mr. Barkis's will, and expounding its contents.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Didn’t Lang include your ‘Kiss Endured’ among the four supreme sonnets by women in the English language?
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
Winter, spring, and summer passed away during my labours; but I did not watch the blossom or the expanding leaves—sights which before always yielded me supreme delight—so deeply was I engrossed in my occupation.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
By a supreme exertion of will, with rearing brain and eyes that ached so that he could not keep them open, he managed to get out of bed, only to be left stranded by his senses upon the table.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
Who could have guessed that it was the prelude to our supreme disaster?
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
