SUPERB

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does superb mean? 

• SUPERB (adjective)
  The adjective SUPERB has 2 senses:

1. of surpassing excellence

2. surpassingly good

  Familiarity information: SUPERB used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• SUPERB (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Of surpassing excellence

Synonyms:

brilliant; superb

Context example:

a superb actor

Similar:

superior (of high or superior quality or performance)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Surpassingly good

Context example:

a superb meal

Similar:

good (having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified)

 Context examples 

Some Aquarians may go into rehab at this time—a superb time to do so.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Two wax candles stood lighted on the table, and two on the mantelpiece; basking in the light and heat of a superb fire, lay Pilot—Adele knelt near him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I was insensible when washed ashore, but the miserable remnant of my superb specimen was still intact; I now lay it before you.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

From our drag we had a superb view as they came up the straight.

(The Memoirs of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

It was only a foot and a half long, and in my superb ignorance I never dreamed that the club used ashore when raiding the rookeries measured four to five feet.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is superb.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

It was truly superb.

(Little Women, by Louisa May Alcott)

Irene Adler, as I will still call her, had hurried up the steps; but she stood at the top with her superb figure outlined against the lights of the hall, looking back into the street.

(The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

At the further end, very much at his ease amongst the aristocrats and exquisites who surrounded him, sat the Champion of England, his superb figure thrown back in his chair, a flush upon his handsome face, and a loose red handkerchief knotted carelessly round his throat in the picturesque fashion which was long known by his name.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

This is a superb full moon when things should go your way.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)