pre-eminent

ADJECTIVE

major-league

Synonyms

WEAK

big-league big-time blue-chip chief critical crucial exceptional four-star front-page grave great heavy high-power major notable playing hard ball serious strictly business

ADJECTIVE

transcendent

Synonyms

STRONGEST

abstract fantastic otherworldly sublime supernatural ultimate

WEAK

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

Antonyms

STRONGEST

poor real secondary

WEAK

inferior ordinary simple

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First, the U.S. remains the world’s pre-eminent military power.

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While not a pre-eminent Islamic scholar, Khamenei has studied under various grand ayatollahs.

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Khamenei isn’t regarded as a pre-eminent religious authority, despite his new position as spiritual guide for the world’s Shias.

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He is also designated as the pre-eminent authority for the world’s roughly 200 million Shia Muslims.

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Mendes-Flohr was a pre-eminent scholar of modern Jewish thought and a student, at Brandeis University, of Rosenzweig’s pupil Nahum Glatzer.

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