An exaggerated expression (usually of praise)

Usage examples of superlative.

The citizens had judged him rightly for what he was - a nigromancer of superlative powers.

We all conceived a prepossession in his favour, for there was a sterling quality in this laugh, and in his vigorous, healthy voice, and in the roundness and fullness with which he uttered every word he spoke, and in the very fury of his superlatives, which seemed to go off like blank cannons and hurt nothing.

Tower of Babel which has sprung up in Paris has killed that pretention, I think we shall feel and speak more modestly about our stone hyperbole, our materialization of the American love of the superlative.

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The wines were superlative, and by the time they had been returned to the Bianchi palazzo, Stone was a little drunk, more than a little jet-lagged, and ready for bed.

Journey to Calvary, which contains about forty figures rather larger than life, and nine horses,--is of such superlative excellence as regards composition and dramatic power, to say nothing of the many admirable individual figures comprised in it, that it is not too much to call it the most astounding work that has ever been achieved in sculpture.

If he hears claims of superlative gains by the experiments there carried on, how is he to weigh and decide their value?

Lavandula delphinensis and Lavandula latifolia--detects a superlative meal in the making.

Yet one tiny scrap of evidence regarding the superlative has long been available: In Letters:278-279, Tolkien explained the adjectival form ancalima occurring in LotR.

In English, adjectives have a comparative form that is constructed by adding the ending -er, and a superlative form that is formed with the ending -est.

For this reason, many writers have used the prefix an as the equivalent of the English ending -est, to construct the superlative form of adjectives e.

Then it would probably also be permissible to let adjectives retain their normal initial consonant even when the superlative prefix an comes before it.

The other thirteen are clarifiers—they are used to specify tenses, or as counters, or even to identify comparatives and superlatives.

And what chains them to their present state of barbarism and wretchedness, but a bigotted veneration for the supposed superlative wisdom of their fathers, and the preposterous idea that they are to look backward for better things, and not forward, longing, as it should seem, to return to the days of eating acorns and roots, rather than indulge in the degeneracies of civilization?

But it is a superlative story because of its Faulknerian qualitiesthe dark and twisted pride motivating the criminal, the pathos, the authentic sound of the dialogue, the local colour, and the provincial stage on which Faulkner plays out his little drama.