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SUPREME
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Dictionary entry overview: What does supreme mean?
• SUPREME (adjective)
The adjective SUPREME has 4 senses:
1. final or last in your life or progress
2. greatest in status or authority or power
3. highest in excellence or achievement
4. greatest or maximal in degree; extreme
Familiarity information: SUPREME used as an adjective is uncommon.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
Final or last in your life or progress
Context example:
the supreme judgment
Similar:
ultimate (furthest or highest in degree or order; utmost or extreme)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Greatest in status or authority or power
Synonyms:
sovereign; supreme
Context example:
a supreme tribunal
Similar:
dominant (exercising influence or control)
Sense 3
Meaning:
Highest in excellence or achievement
Context example:
supreme courage
Similar:
superior (of high or superior quality or performance)
Sense 4
Meaning:
Greatest or maximal in degree; extreme
Synonyms:
sublime; supreme
Context example:
His face assumed an expression of sublime conceit
Similar:
maximal; maximum (the greatest or most complete or best possible)
Context examples
To all of us it seemed the moment of our supreme triumph.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
It would be the supreme moment of my life.
(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The toil of the traces seemed the supreme expression of their being, and all that they lived for and the only thing in which they took delight.
(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)
It was only by a supreme effort of soul that she was able to keep upright and go on and do what she had to do.
(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)
But he had not that supreme gift of the artist, the knowledge of when to stop.
(The Return of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
The first will be when Mercury and Uranus work in supreme harmony on February 5, a day when home-related ideas will shine.
(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)
His was the perfect poise, the supreme confidence in self, which nothing could shake; and he was no more timid of a woman than he was of storm and battle.
(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)
His supreme contempt for his own limbs, as he sat smoking, was one of the pleasantest oddities I have ever encountered.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
Mont Blanc, the supreme and magnificent Mont Blanc, raised itself from the surrounding aiguilles, and its tremendous dôme overlooked the valley.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
And to Martin Eden's supreme surprise, she burst into a storm of tears that took more kisses than one and many caresses to drive away.
(Martin Eden, by Jack London)
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