Word Finder - superlatives

definition

The highest extent or degree of something.

synonyms

• acme
• apex
• height
• zenith

definition

(grammar) The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the quality expressed by the adjective; in English, formed by appending "-est" to the end of the adjective (for some short adjectives only) or putting "most" before it.

example

The superlative of "big" is "biggest".

definition

An adjective used to praise something exceptional.

example

Daniel is amazing, wonderful, fantastic, and many other superlatives I can’t think of right now!

The system will also look for anything they've written publicly about this place (Yelp, Facebook, personal blog) and which superlatives they used to describe it.

A repeat second performance by these birds gave unbelievable views, I can not find enough superlatives to describe these birds.

It's not every day you get to review yourself but don't worry, I'll keep superlatives to a minimum.

There are not enough superlatives for The Relaxation Center, Bristol should be proud to be home to such a place.

What else can we say without digging out any more superlatives to make our point?

The periphrastic superlatives also greatly outnumber the inflectional superlatives from the Late Middle English period onwards.

He has now almost forty recordings, more than at any other time in his career, which have been received with critical superlatives.

But people whose love of literature is more independent find it hard to take Wagner's poetry and prose seriously, unless they have already measured him by his music. He effected no reform in literature; his meticulous adherence to the archaic alliteration of the Nibelungenlied is not allied with any sense of beauty in verbal sound or verse-rhythm; and his ways of expressing emotion in language consist chiefly in the piling-up of superlatives.

It 's not every day you get to review yourself but do n't worry, I'll keep superlatives to a minimum.

Superlatives area bit trickier in French but still not impossible once you get the hang of them.

Just like in English, they take on a special form when being used as comparatives or superlatives.

Using a bunch of superlatives only makes you seem self-serving.

Superlatives do little justice in describing the soaring granite spires of the Fitzroy group or the peaks of the Torres del Paine.

How a research study helped understanding of health inequalities Research rarely attracts superlatives.