Tikibu: pronunciation dictionary with use examples

Word: superiority
IPA transcription: [s,upɪɹi'ɔɹɪti]
Pronunciations of superiority
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noun meaning of the word
  • Synonyms: superiority, high_quality
    Meaning: the quality of being superior
  • Synonyms: superiority, favorable_position, favourable_position
    Meaning: the quality of being at a competitive advantage
  • Synonyms: superiority
    Meaning: displaying a sense of being better than others; "he hated the white man's superiority and condescension"
Usage examples
  • The oak may have the advantage in the comparison, as his locality and consequent superiority are permanent.
  • Man is a contradiction in terms; he is a beast whose superiority to other beasts consists in having fallen.
  • The common people of France have a great superiority over that class in every other country on this very score.
  • And yet rich men probably have a greater superiority in the science and practise of boxing than they have in military qualities.
  • His style has a brio, a poise, a savoir faire, a je ne sais quoi, which stamps all his work with the cachet of literary superiority.
  • He never fully understood the causes of his defeat, and never excused it by pleading, as he might have done, the great superiority of his enemy.
  • Her speed submerged was fourteen knots, which gave her a superiority over the fastest German craft, and she could remain submerged for two days.
  • Wherein lay the great superiority of his position, if he was denied the right to speak to the one person in the world whom he most cared to address?
  • Superiority and inferiority, dominion and subjection are bound to a natural envy and contest, and must of necessity perpetually intrench upon one another.
  • Essex dreaded a battle with the king's army, on account of its great superiority in cavalry; and he resolved to return, if possible, without running that hazard.
0. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Julius Caesar, License CC BY-SA 4.0
1. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Space Race, License CC BY-SA 4.0
2. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Yan Xishan, License CC BY-SA 4.0
3. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Fentanyl, License CC BY-SA 4.0
4. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ronald Reagan, License CC BY-SA 4.0
5. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Sex and sexuality in speculative fiction, License CC BY-SA 4.0
6. Word pronunciation is derived from article recording Ottoman Empire, License CC BY-SA 4.0