super

Of excellent quality, superfine.

Adjective

  1. Of excellent quality, superfine.
  2. Better than average, better than usual; wonderful.

Origin

From super- (prefix), from Middle English super-, from Latin super-, from super (“above”). Doublet of over and hyper.

Synonyms

awesome excellent

Related

super-

Derived

chief super minisuper super-app super ASBO superbackground Super Bowl super combined supercomposite supercup super cup super deformed superdick superdodger super-duper superego superfecta superfight superforecaster superforecasting superfox super gonorrhea super greenhouse gas Super League super light

Adverb

  1. Very; extremely (used like the prefix super-).
    • The party was super awesome.
    • The job is super interesting for a person who enjoys a hardware environment and communicating with people. - 1992 March 14, The Canberra Times, page 9, column 2:
    • “The best people are staying, so I’m not super worried,” he tweeted. - 2022 November 18, Ryan Mac, Mike Isaac, Kellen Browning, quoting Elon Musk, “Elon Musk’s Twitter Teeters on the Edge After Another 1,200 Leave”, in...
  2. Absolutely; utterly.
    • I super don't care about that.

Noun

  1. Clipping of superannuation.
    • Jane looked forward to collecting a large super payout when she retired.
    • “I want to make it clear, compassionate release of super should only be considered as a last resort, where all other options of paying for the eligible expenses have been exhausted,” she said. - 2025 October 16, Melissa...
  2. Clipping of supercomputer.
    • The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scale supers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example. -...
  3. Clipping of superhero.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
  4. Clipping of superhive.
    • There may be thirty to fifty supers in every outyard, and we have only about half an hour to get them off the hives, stacked and covered before the bees get really cross about what we are doing. - 1983, Sue Hubbell, A...
  5. Clipping of superintendent, especially, a building's resident manager (sometimes clarified as “building super”).
  6. Clipping of supernaturalist, especially as distinguished from bright.
    • For quotations using this term, see Citations:super.
  7. Clipping of supernumerary; (theater) specifically, a supernumerary actor.
    • For this scene, a large number of supers are engaged, and in order to further swell the crowd, practically all the available stage hands have to ‘walk on’ dressed in various coloured dominoes, and all wearing masks. -...
    • The piece was gave by a bunch o’ supers the time I went. I’d like to see it with a real cast. They say it’s a whiz when it’s acted right. - 1916, Ring W. Lardner, “Three Kings and a Pair”, in The Saturday Evening Post:
  8. Clipping of supertanker.
    • That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to become supers, mammoths and oilbergs. - 1973, Jeffrey Potter, Disaster by Oil, page 46:
  9. Clipping of supervisor.
  10. A superimposed caption or image.
    • Supers are superimposed words that run across the TV screen and provide information such as the names of interview subjects. The newsroom sends a printed list of these supers to Perry. - 2009, James Robert Parish, Jim...
  11. A watch (timepiece).
    • The "super" or watch is passed to a stall, who hurries away, while the "dip" continues on the car. No sign of recognition passes between the members of the mob when at work. - 1909, Ignatz Leo Nascher, The Wretches of...
    • Once the "super,” or watch, was in his hand, Tony would swiftly pass it to Carlo. - 2016, Deborah Hopkinson, A Bandit's Tale: The Muddled Misadventures of a Pickpocket (page 86)

Origin

Abbreviation by shortening.

Forms

supers

Verb

  1. Clipping of superhive.
    • The question is: when is the best time to super? - 1917 Dadant, C. P., First Lessons in Beekeeping; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73
  2. Clipping of superimpose.
    • Even running a supered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels […] - 1987, Television Quarterly, volumes 23-24:

Forms

supers supering supered