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See definition of first-string on Dictionary.com
  • as insuperior
  • as intop-notch
  • as infine
  • as infirst
  • as infirst-class/first-rate
  • as infirst string

synonyms for first-string

  • admirable
  • exceptional
  • first-rate
  • good
  • high-caliber
  • preferable
  • remarkable
  • superhuman
  • above
  • capital
  • choice
  • dandy
  • exclusive
  • expert
  • fine
  • major
  • over
  • premium
  • primary
  • senior
  • a cut above
  • deluxe
  • distinguished
  • exceeding
  • famous
  • finer
  • first-class
  • five-star
  • good quality
  • grander
  • high-class
  • more advanced
  • more skillful
  • noteworthy
  • of higher rank
  • overlying
  • paramount
  • predominant
  • preferred
  • prevailing
  • superincumbent
  • surpassing
  • unrivalled

antonyms for first-string

MOST RELEVANT
  • detestable
  • normal
  • ordinary
  • unremarkable
  • usual
  • bad
  • inferior
  • minor
  • poor
  • secondary
  • unimportant
  • below
  • humble
  • lower
  • meek
    • bad
    • inferior
    • lesser
    • poor
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      How to use first-string in a sentence

      This is the first and principal point at which we can stanch the wastage of teaching energy that now goes on.
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      He was converted and baptized, and was the first Hebrew instructor at Harvard college.
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      And I have not had the first morsel of food prepared from this grain offered me since I reached the shores of Europe.
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      Now first we shall want our pupil to understand, speak, read and write the mother tongue well.
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      In treble, second and fourth, the first change is a dodge behind; and the second time the treble leads, there's a double Bob.
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      Aristide replaced the baby, and with a complicated arrangement of string fastened it securely to the seat.
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      First a shower of shells dropping all along the lower ridges and out over the surface of the Bay.
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      Elyon is the name of an ancient Phœnician god, slain by his son El, no doubt the “first-born of death” in Job xviii.
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      First, how about the expansibility needed to supply adequate funds for crop-moving?
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      For this use of the voice in the special service of will-power, or propelling force, it is necessary first to test its freedom.
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