supereminent

[soo-per-em-uh-nuhnt] / ˌsu pərˈɛm ə nənt /

ADJECTIVE

principal

Synonyms

STRONGEST

dominant key leading main major outstanding paramount predominant preeminent primary prime prominent

STRONG

arch capital cardinal champion chief essential first head maximum premier sovereign star superior

WEAK

controlling crowning foremost greatest highest incomparable mainline matchless peerless prevailing second to none stellar strongest supreme transcendent unapproachable unequaled unparalleled unrivaled

Antonyms

STRONGEST

inconspicuous inessential inferior insignificant last lesser minor nonessential ordinary secondary subordinate trivial unimportant unknown

STRONG

auxiliary least lower poor

WEAK

extra

Example Sentences

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Tennessee, unconquered by any regular-season opponent during the past three years, has this year lost 13 lettermen as well as its supereminent coach, Major Bob Neyland, U.S.A.

From Time Magazine Archive

Had the President chosen this supereminent publicist, from whose pursed lips come editorial pearls, to confide an exegesis of the historic "do not choose" statement?

From Time Magazine Archive

Napoleon, notwithstanding his supereminent genius, made some extraordinary mistakes about warfare on the sea.

From Sea-Power and Other Studies by Bridge, Cyprian, Admiral Sir

As he is the chief of poets, we infer that the faculty in which he is supereminent must be the greatest of poetic endowments.

From Special Method in the Reading of Complete English Classics In the Grades of the Common School by McMurry, Charles A. (Charles Alexander)

I am from below, where I am with two hundred in the most supereminent of all societies.

From The Delights of Wisdom Pertaining to Conjugial Love by Swedenborg, Emanuel

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