-n. 4. standout, heavyweight, Si. heavy, biggest frog in the pond, Inf. honch, lion, toast of the town; executive, higher-up, (collectively) brass; personage, dignitary, Archaic, dignity, notable, very important person, Inf. V.I.P.; person of note or consequence, well-known figure, celebrity, SI. celeb, somebody.
5. supervisor, manager, foreman, boss. See - supervisor.
superiority, n. 1. excellence, superexcellence, perfection, extraordinariness, superlativeness, magnificence; peerlessness, matchlessness; incomparability, inimitability, virtuosity; eminence, importance, top billing; greatness, prominence, mark, note; sublimity, regard, renown, prestige, grandeur, glory.
2. preeminence, dominance, predominance, control, power, dominion, domination; pull, sway, hold, prevalence; preponderancy, paramountcy, primacy, pre-pollence; ascendancy, supremacy, sovereignty, mastery; priority, seniority, command, hegemony; advantage, vantage. Inf. edge; vantage ground, superior or strategic position.
superlative, adj. 1. supreme, paramount, preeminent, superior, transcendent; uppermost, best, greatest, finest, prime, choicest; unexcelled, second to none, Latin, nulli secundus matchless, peerless, unequalled, unparalleled, nonpareil, Fr. sanspareil, incomparable, inimitable, unrivaled; perfect, ultimate, SI. the living end.
2. excellent, sterling, classic, first-class; first-rate, of the first order, capital, Inf. tiptop, Inf. A-l, Inf. A number 1; exceptional, extreme, outstanding, out of the ordinary, unusual, singular, unique; extraordinary, Inf. out of this world, Inf. fantastic, Inf. terrific, great, Inf. super, superb, SI. bang-up, Inf smashing; splendid, wonderful, brilliant, dazzling, Brit. SI. ripping.
3. exaggerated, bombastic, high-sounding, high-flown, inflated, overblown, turgid, tumid; pretentious, pompous, grandiose, fustian, magniloquent, grandiloquent, sonorous; ornate, flowery, euphuistic, rhetorical, stilted, declamatory, pedantic. -n. 4. summit, apogee, pinnacle, zenith; maximum, utmost, uttermost, topmost.
supernal, adj. 1. heavenly, divine, godly, sublime, celestial, supernatural; ethereal, paradisiacal, Elysian, Edenic, Arcadian, Olympian, utopian; angelic, seraphic, cherubic, saintly, blessed, blest, holy, hallowed; majestic, splendorous, blissful, glorious, golden, ambrosial.
2. lofty, honorable, venerable, revered, respected; dignified, distingu^, stately, august; sublime, exalted, magnificent, imposing, imperious; lordly, noble, kingly, queenly, imperial, princely, magisterial.
supernatural, adj. 1. supernormal, hypernormal, preternormal; superhuman, preterhuman; superphysical, hyperphysical; abnormal, anomalous, anomalistic, unnatural, supranatural; unusual, exceptional, singular.
2. divine, almighty, omnipotent, all-powerful; godly, godlike; Olympian; celestial, heavenly, sublime, supernal; transcendent, Theol. immanent.
3. preternatural, fabulous, remarkable, extraordinary, out of the ordinary, out of this world; wondrous, wonderful, marvelous, miraculous, thaumatur-gic; sensational, phenomenal, Inf fantastic, incredible, unbelievable.
4. otherworldly, unearthly, supermundane, supra-mundane, extramundane; metaphysical, spiritual; spectral, astral, ethereal, ghostly, phantom, phantomlike, wraithlike; magical, unreal, fey; bewitched, enchanted, haunted, Inf. spooky; occult, cabalistic, mystic, mystical, transcendental; mysterious, arcane, eso-