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The adjective everyone secretly uses to describe themselves while pretending it's about quality.
means Better than others in rank, quality, or attitude — and often all three at once.
from From Latin superior, the comparative form of superus ('above, upper'), itself rooted in super ('over, above'). It's a straightforward 'more above-ish' construction — the same super- that gives English superb, supreme, and superintendent, all of which share that upward, looking-down-on-you energy.
- origin
- Latin for simply higher, not better
- complex
- the disorder named after feeling it unearned
- great lakes
- also the coldest, deepest, least swimmable one
- irony
- most self-declared cases are the opposite