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pre-eminent
adjective as in major-league
adjective as in transcendent
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- absolute
- accomplished
- beyond grasp
- boundless
- consummate
- entire
- eternal
- exceeding
- finished
- hypothetical
- ideal
- incomparable
- infinite
- innate
- intact
- intellectual
- intuitive
- matchless
- obscure
- original
- peerless
- perfect
- primordial
- superior
- supreme
- surpassing
- theoretical
- towering
- transcendental
- transcending
- transmundane
- unequalable
- unequalled
- unique
- unparalleled
- unrivalled
- whole
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Example Sentences
The Obama administration should have been raising holy hell, demanding that a pre-eminent doctor get his vote on the Senate floor.
Some of the pre-eminent innovators at the intersection of art and coding are based at the Aesthetics and Computation Group at MIT.
Pre-eminent naval historian Craig L. Symonds talks about how the Allies devised, executed, and then survived the D-Day invasion.
It is today regarded as a pre-eminent artistic commentary on apartheid.
Gates has repeatedly lauded Petraeus as “the pre-eminent soldier-scholar of his generation.”
But, apart from this, the Bruce's capacity as a military commander stands forth pre-eminent.
In didactic poetry Lucretius was pre-eminent, and is regarded by Schlegel as the first of Roman poets in native genius.
But it was in forensic eloquence that Cicero was pre-eminent, in which he had but one equal in ancient times.
To the ancients “holidays” were joy-days, pandemoniums, and the pre-eminent emblem of joviality was the holly tree.
These are two powerful and genuine pictures, two pre-eminent works which will endure.
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On this page you'll find 71 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to pre-eminent, such as: big-league, big-time, blue-chip, chief, critical, and crucial.
From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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