Supreme

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: su=preme

CIDE DICTIONARY

Supreme, a. [L. supremus, superlative of superus that is above, upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. Sum.].

•  Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.  [1913 Webster]

  "He that is the supreme King of kings."  [1913 Webster]
•  Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.  [1913 Webster]

  "Each would be supreme within its own sphere, and those spheres could not but clash."  [1913 Webster]
•  Situated at the highest part or point.  [1913 Webster]

The Supreme, the Almighty; God.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

Supreme, adj. & n.
--adj.
1 highest in authority or rank.
2 greatest; most important.
3 (of a penalty or sacrifice etc.) involving death.
--n.
1 a rich cream sauce.
2 a dish served in this.

Idiom

the Supreme Being a name for God. Supreme Court the highest judicial court in a State etc. supreme pontiff see PONTIFF. Supreme Soviet the governing council of the USSR or one of its constituent republics.

Derivative

supremely adv. supremeness n.

Etymology

L supremus, superl. of superus that is above f. super above

THESAURUS

Supreme

absolute, acmatic, all-absorbing, all-knowing, all-powerful, all-seeing, all-wise, almighty, apical, ascendant, at the head, authoritarian, authoritative, authorized, autocratic, best, boss, boundless, brilliant, capital, cardinal, champion, changeless, chief, choice, clothed with authority, commanding, competent, consequential, considerable, consummate, controlling, creating, creative, crowning, dominant, duly constituted, elect, elite, eminent, empowered, eternal, eternally the same, everlasting, ex officio, excellent, extreme, final, first, first-class, first-rate, for the best, foremost, general, glorious, good, governing, great, greatest, hallowed, handpicked, head, headmost, hegemonic, hegemonistic, highest, holy, immortal, immutable, imperative, important, in ascendancy, in charge, in chief, in the ascendant, incomparable, infinite, influential, inimitable, just, last, leading, limitless, loftiest, loving, luminous, main, majestic, making, master, masterful, masterly, matchless, maximal, maximum, merciful, meridian, meridional, mighty, momentous, monocratic, most, numinous, official, omnipotent, omnipresent, omniscient, one, optimal, optimum, outstanding, overmost, overriding, overruling, paramount, peerless, perfect, permanent, perpetual, picked, plenipotentiary, potent, powerful, predominant, predominate, preeminent, premier, prepollent, preponderant, preponderate, prepotent, prestigious, prevalent, primary, prime, principal, prize, prominent, puissant, quintessential, radiant, ranking, regnant, regulating, regulative, regulatory, reigning, ruling, sacred, select, senior, shaping, sovereign, sublime, substantial, summital, superb, superior, superlative, surpassing, timeless, tip-top, top, top-notch, topmost, totalitarian, towering, transcendent, ubiquitous, ultimate, unbounded, unchanging, undefined, unequaled, unexcelled, unlimited, unmatchable, unmatched, unparalleled, unrivaled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, upmost, uppermost, utmost, uttermost, vertical, very best, weighty, zenithal

ROGET THESAURUS

Supreme

Superiority

N superiority, majority, greatness, advantage, pull, preponderance, preponderation, vantage ground, prevalence, partiality, personal superiority, nobility, Triton among the minnows, primus inter pares, nulli secundus, captain, crackajack, supremacy, preeminence, lead, maximum, record, trikumia, climax, culmination, transcendence, ne plus ultra, lion's share, Benjamin's mess, excess, surplus, (redundancy), superior, greater, major, higher, exceeding, great, distinguished, ultra, vaulting, more than a match for, supreme, greatest, utmost, paramount, preeminent, foremost, crowning, first-rate, unrivaled peerless, matchless, none such, second to none, sans pareil, unparagoned, unparalleled, unequalled, unapproached, unsurpassed, superlative, inimitable facile princeps, incomparable, sovereign, without parallel, nulli secundus, ne plus ultra, beyond compare, beyond comparison, culminating, transcendent, transcendental, plus royaliste que le Roi, more catholic than the Pope increased, enlarged, beyond, more, over, over the mark, above the mark, above par, upwards of, in advance of, over and above, at the top of the scale, at its height, eminently, egregiously, preeminently, surpassing, prominently, superlatively, supremely, above all, of all things, the most, to crown all, kat exochin, par excellence, principally, especially, particularly, peculiarly, a fortiori, even, yea, still more, I shall not look upon his like again, deos fortioribus addesse.

Authority

N authority, influence, patronage, power, preponderance, credit, prestige, prerogative, jurisdiction, right, direction, government, divine right, dynastic rights, authoritativeness, absoluteness, absolutism, despotism, jus nocendi, jus divinum, mastery, mastership, masterdom, dictation, control, hold, grasp, grip, gripe, reach, iron sway, fangs, clutches, talons, rod of empire, commission, deputy, permission, at the head, dominant, paramount, supreme, predominant, preponderant, in the ascendant, influential, arbitrary, compulsory, stringent, at one's command, in one's power, in one's grasp, under control, in the name of, by the authority of, de par le Roi, in virtue of, under the auspices of, in the hands of, at one's pleasure, by a dash if the pen, by a stroke of the pen, ex mero motu, ex cathedra, from the chair, the gray mare the better horse, every inch a king.

Summit

N summit, summity, top, peak, vertex, apex, zenith, pinnacle, acme, culmination, meridian, utmost height, ne plus utra, height, pitch, maximum, climax, culminating point, crowning point, turning point, turn of the tide, fountain head, water shed, water parting, sky, pole, tip, tip top, crest, crow's nest, cap, truck, nib, end, crown, brow, head, nob, noddle, pate, capsheaf, high places, heights, topgallant mast, sky scraper, quarter deck, hurricane deck, architrave, frieze, cornice, coping stone, zoophorus, capital, epistyle, sconce, pediment, entablature, tympanum, ceiling, attic, loft, garret, house top, upper story, summit conference, summit, peak of achievement, peak of performance, peaks and troughs, peaks and valleys (in graphs), highest &c (high), top, top most, upper most, tiptop, culminating, meridian, meridional, capital, head, polar, supreme, supernal, topgallant, atop, at the top of the tree, en flute, fleur deau.