Usually means: Highest degree of quality expressed.
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  1. superlative: Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
  2. superlative: Merriam-Webster
  3. superlative, the superlative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  4. superlative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  5. superlative: Collins English Dictionary
  6. superlative: Vocabulary.com
  7. Superlative, superlative: Wordnik
  8. superlative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  9. superlative: Wiktionary
  10. superlative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  11. superlative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  12. superlative: Infoplease Dictionary
  13. superlative: Dictionary.com
  14. superlative (adj.): Online Etymology Dictionary
  15. superlative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  16. Superlative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  17. Superlative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  18. superlative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  19. superlative: Rhymezone
  20. Superlative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  21. superlative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  22. superlative: FreeDictionary.org
  23. superlative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  24. superlative: TheFreeDictionary.com

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  1. Superlative: Glossary of English Grammar Terms
  2. Superlative: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superlative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. superlative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. online medical dictionary (No longer online)

Miscellaneous (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Encyclopedia of Graphic Symbols (No longer online)

(Note: See superlatively as well.)

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American English Definition British English Definition
noun:  The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (informal) An adjective used to praise something exceptional.
adjective:  Exceptionally good; of the highest quality; superb.
adjective:  (grammar) Of or relating to a superlative.

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