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WordReference Random House Learner's Dictionary of American English © 2024su•per•la•tive /səˈpɜrlətɪv, sʊ-/USA pronunciation adj. - of the highest kind or order:The dinner was superlative.
- Grammarof or designating the highest degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs, used to show the extreme or greatest in quality, quantity, or intensity, as in smallest, best, and most carefully, the superlative forms of small, good, and carefully. Compare comparative (def. 4),positive (def. 22).
n. - [countable] a superlative person or thing.
- Grammar
- Grammar[uncountable* usually: the + ~] the superlative degree of an adjective or adverb:Put the adjective good into the superlative.
- Grammar[countable] the superlative form of an adjective or adverb:The words and phrases smallest, best, and most carefully are superlatives.
su•per•la•tive•ly, adv.: She performed superlatively well during the concert.See -lat1-. WordReference Random House Unabridged Dictionary of American English © 2024su•per•la•tive (sə pûr′lə tiv, sŏŏ-),USA pronunciation adj. - of the highest kind, quality, or order;
surpassing all else or others;
supreme;
extreme:superlative wisdom. - Grammarof, pertaining to, or noting the highest degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, as smallest, best, and most carefully, the superlative forms of small, good, and carefully. Cf. comparative (def. 4), positive (def. 20).
- being more than is proper or normal;
exaggerated in language or style.
n. - a superlative person or thing.
- the utmost degree;
acme. - Grammar
- the superlative degree.
- a form in the superlative.
- Late Latin, as above
- Old French
- Late Latin superlātīvus, equivalent. to Latin superlāt(us) hyperbolical (super- super- + -lātus, suppletive past participle of ferre to bear1) + -īvus -ive; replacing Middle English superlatif
- Middle English 1350–1400
- 1.See corresponding entry in Unabridged surpassing, excellent, magnificent, preeminent.
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