Fromsuper- ( prefix ) , fromMiddle English super- Latin super- super ( “ above ” ) .Doublet ofover hyper
super (notcomparable )
Of excellent quality,superfine . Better than average, better than usual;wonderful .better than usual
Bulgarian:су́пер ( súper ) Chinese:Mandarin:優秀 / 优秀 (zh) ( yōuxiù ) ,出色 (zh) ( chūsè ) Danish:super (da) Dutch:super (nl) French:super (fr) Galician:súper German:super (de) Greek:υπέρ (el) ( ypér ) Hebrew:סופר (he) Icelandic:frábær (is) ,súper Indonesian:amat (id) Italian:super (it) ,sopra (it) Japanese:超 (ja) ( ちょう , chō) ,すばらしい (ja) ( subarashii ) Latin:super (la) ,supra (la) Malayalam:മികച്ച (ml) ( mikacca ) ,തകർപ്പൻ (ml) ( takaṟppaṉ ) Norwegian:super (no) Polish:super (pl) Portuguese:súper (pt) Russian:су́пер (ru) ( súper ) ,превосхо́дный (ru) ( prevosxódnyj ) ,кла́ссный (ru) ( klássnyj ) ,потря́сный (ru) ( potrjásnyj ) Serbo-Croatian:super (sh) Spanish:súper (es) ,sumamente (es) ,recontra- requetecontra ( Latin America ) ,requete- (es) ,pero que muy rete- -ísimo (es) Swedish:super (sv) Turkish:süper (tr) Vietnamese:siêu (vi)
super (notcomparable )( colloquial )
Very ;extremely (used like the prefixsuper- The party wassuper awesome.
1992 March 14,The Canberra Times , page 9, column 2:The job issuper interesting for a person who enjoys a hardware environment and communicating with people.
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”, inThe New York Times [1] →ISSN “The best people are staying, so I’m notsuper worried,” he tweeted.
Absolutely ;utterly .Isuper don't care about that.
Abbreviation by shortening.
super (plural supers
( Australia , New Zealand , informal ) Clipping ofsuperannuation Jane looked forward to collecting a largesuper payout when she retired.
2025 October 16, Melissa Davey, “Australians took more than $1.4bn from theirsuper last year for everything from weight loss to dental work”, inThe Guardian [2] Guardian Media Group ,→ISSN →OCLC 16 October 2025 :“I want to make it clear, compassionate release ofsuper should only be considered as a last resort, where all other options of paying for the eligible expenses have been exhausted,” she said.
Clipping ofsupercomputer 1989 Parallel processing for supercomputers and artificial intelligence :The performances and cost ranges of three classes of commercial supercomputers are given in Table 2.1. The full-scalesupers are the most expensive class, represented by Cray, ETA, and Fujitsu systems, for example.
( comics , slang ) Clipping ofsuperhero ( beekeeping ) Clipping ofsuperhive 1983 A Country Year: Living the Questions , Boston, MA:Mariner Books , published1999 ,→ISBN 69 There may be thirty to fiftysupers 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.
( informal , US ) Clipping ofsuperintendent especially, a building's resident manager( sometimes clarified as “building super” ) .( neologism ) Clipping ofsupernaturalist especially as distinguished frombright Clipping ofsupernumerary ( theater ) specifically, a supernumerary actor.1904–1905 i.e. ,Emma Orczy ], “The Affair at the Novelty Theatre ”, inThe Case of Miss Elliott T[homas] Fisher Unwin , published1905 ,→OCLC OCLC 11192831 The Case of Miss Elliott (ebook no. 2000141h.html)Project Gutenberg of Australia , February 2020:For this scene, a large number ofsupers 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.
1916 Ring W. Lardner , “Three Kings and a Pair”, inThe Saturday Evening Post [3] 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.
Clipping ofsupertanker 1973 Disaster by Oil , page46 :That is a lot of ship, about the size of big tankers before they grew so rapidly to becomesupers , mammoths and oilbergs.
Clipping ofsupervisor ( television ) superimposed caption orimage .2009 Jim Henson , page114 :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 thesesupers to Perry.
super (third-person singular simple present supers present participle supering simple past and past participle supered
( beekeeping ) Clipping ofsuperhive 1917 Dadant, C. P.,First Lessons in Beekeeping ; revised & rewritten edition, 1968, by M. G. Dadant and J. C. Dadant, p 73:The question is: when is the best time tosuper ? ( television ) Clipping ofsuperimpose 1987 Television Quarterly , volumes23-24 :Even running asupered "Re-enactment" caption for a few seconds is poor policy, he feels[ …]
sprue Rupes Pre-Us re-ups pures Prues Purse purse reups rupes puers FromEnglish super Eric Tsang in theSuper Trio series
super
( Hong Kong Cantonese ) Used when atied ordraw situation occurs, or when one is suggesting adraw . Clipping ofEnglish super visor
super
( Hong Kong Cantonese , university slang ) supervisor (of astudent )( Hong Kong Cantonese ) supervisor ;manager Borrowed fromEnglish super French super Latin super
super (indeclinable
( informal ) super great Synonym: supr Můj brácha si koupil super auto, to musíš vidět! Ten výlet byl prostě super! This word is slightly more formal thansupr super
( informal ) super Synonym: supr “super ”, inKartotéka Novočeského lexikálního archivu (in Czech) Borrowed viaEnglish super Latin super ( “ over ” )
super (neuter super or supert plural super or ( unofficial ) supre
( informal ) terrific super
( informal ) very Borrowed fromEnglish super Latin super
IPA (key ) : /ˈsy.pər/ Hyphenation:su‧per super
( informal ) very ,extremely ,super De kunststofuitvoering is welsuper duur. The plastic version issuper expensive. super (notcomparable )
great ,super Die nieuwe karts zijnsuper . Those new karts aregreat . FromLatin super Doublet ofsur
super
above ,over 1927 L. L. Zamenhof , transl.,La Sankta Biblio [The Holy Bible [4] British and Foreign Bible Society ;Scottish Bible Society ,→ISBN Kaj la tero estis senforma kaj dezerta, kaj mallumo estissuper la abismo; kaj la spirito de Dio ŝvebissuper la akvo. And the Earth was formless and deserted, and darkness wasabove the abyss; and the spirit of God hoveredover the water. Borrowed fromLatin super sur hyper
super (invariable
superb ,great super
( informal ) extremely ,very (as an intensifier )Il estsuper beau he's very handsome super
great ,fantastic Probably a borrowing from aGermanic *sūpaną ( “ to sip, sup ” ) . If so thendoublet ofsouper
super
( regional ) suck , tosip infinitive simple super compound avoir present participle orgerund 1 simple supant /sy.pɑ̃/ compound ayant past participle supé /sy.pe/ singular plural first second third first second third indicative je (j’) tu il, elle, on nous vous ils, elles (simple present supe /syp/ supes /syp/ supe /syp/ supons /sy.pɔ̃/ supez /sy.pe/ supent /syp/ imperfect supais /sy.pɛ/ supais /sy.pɛ/ supait /sy.pɛ/ supions /sy.pjɔ̃/ supiez /sy.pje/ supaient /sy.pɛ/ past historic 2 supai /sy.pe/ supas /sy.pa/ supa /sy.pa/ supâmes /sy.pam/ supâtes /sy.pat/ supèrent /sy.pɛʁ/ future superai /sy.pʁe/ superas /sy.pʁa/ supera /sy.pʁa/ superons /sy.pʁɔ̃/ superez /sy.pʁe/ superont /sy.pʁɔ̃/ conditional superais /sy.pʁɛ/ superais /sy.pʁɛ/ superait /sy.pʁɛ/ superions /sy.pə.ʁjɔ̃/ superiez /sy.pə.ʁje/ superaient /sy.pʁɛ/ (compound present perfect present indicative ofavoir pluperfect imperfect indicative ofavoir past anterior 2 past historic ofavoir future perfect future ofavoir conditional perfect conditional ofavoir subjunctive que je (j’) que tu qu’il, qu’elle que nous que vous qu’ils, qu’elles (simple present supe /syp/ supes /syp/ supe /syp/ supions /sy.pjɔ̃/ supiez /sy.pje/ supent /syp/ imperfect 2 supasse /sy.pas/ supasses /sy.pas/ supât /sy.pa/ supassions /sy.pa.sjɔ̃/ supassiez /sy.pa.sje/ supassent /sy.pas/ (compound past present subjunctive ofavoir pluperfect 2 imperfect subjunctive ofavoir imperative – tu – nous vous – simple — supe /syp/ — supons /sy.pɔ̃/ supez /sy.pe/ — compound — simple imperative ofavoir — simple imperative ofavoir simple imperative ofavoir — 1 The French gerund is usable only with the prepositionen 2 In less formal writing or speech, these tenses may be found to have been replaced in the following way:past historic → present perfect past anterior → pluperfect imperfect subjunctive → present subjunctive pluperfect subjunctive → past subjunctive (Christopher Kendris [1995],Master the Basics: French , pp.77 ,78 ,79 ,81 ).
Borrowed fromLatin super super
super (strong nominative masculine singular superer not comparable )
( colloquial ) super ,great ,awesome Synonyms: klasse spitze In the standard language,super isindeclinable ; it is onlyrarely declined in colloquial usage.
Positive forms ofsuper (uncomparable )
“super ” inDuden online “super ” inDigitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache super
about ( focused on a given topic ) Borrowed fromLatin super sopra
super (invariable
super super m invariable
thebest superphosphate super f invariable
the best grade ofpetrol FromProto-Italic *super Proto-Indo-European *upér ( “ over, above ” ) . Cognate toAncient Greek ὑπέρ ( hupér ,“ above ” ) ,German über ( “ above, over ” ) ,Sanskrit उपरि ( upári ,“ above, upper ” ) ,Hindi ऊपर ( ūpar ,“ above, top, up ” ) ,Odia ଉପର ( upara ,“ above, up ” ) andPunjabi ਉੱਪਰ ( uppar ,“ above, top, up ” ) .The accusative is from the pre-PIE directional. The ablative is from the ablative of cause.
super accusative ,ablative )
( with accusative or ablative ) above ,over , on thetop of,upon Cibussuper mēnsam est. The food ison the table. ( with accusative ) above ,beyond 405CE ,
Jerome ,
Vulgate Genesis.1.2:
terra autem erat inanis et vacua et tenebraesuper faciem abyssi et spiritus Dei ferebatursuper aquas And the earth was void and empty, and darkness wasupon the face of the deep; and the spirit of God movedover the waters. ( with accusative ) above ,beyond ,over ,in addition to ( with ablative ) concerning ,regarding super (comparative superius superlative summē or suprēmē
above ,on top ,over upwards moreover ,in addition ,besides ,on top of this ,too ,also 29BCE BCE ,
Virgil ,
Aeneid 1.29 :
Hīs accēnsasuper [...] [Juno] having been inflamed by these [things]in addition [...] With all of this angering her [...] Juno (mythology) .)“super Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879 ),A Latin Dictionary “super Charlton T. Lewis (1891 ),An Elementary Latin Dictionary , New York: Harper & Brothers “super ”, inGaffiot, Félix (1934 ),Dictionnaire illustré latin-français , Hachette. Carl Meißner; Henry William Auden (1894 ),Latin Phrase-Book [5] Macmillan and Co. the river is over its banks, is in flood:flumen super ripas effunditur super inRamminger, Johann (16 July 2016 (last accessed)),Neulateinische Wortliste: Ein Wörterbuch des Lateinischen von Petrarca bis 1700 [6] Borrowed fromEnglish super
super (notcomparable ,indeclinable no derived adverb )
( colloquial ) great ,excellent Synonyms: see Thesaurus:dobry super (notcomparable )
( colloquial ) excellently super inWielki słownik języka polskiego , Instytut Języka Polskiego PANsuper in Polish dictionaries at PWNUnadapted borrowing fromLatin super super Doublet of the inheritedsobre
super (notcomparable )
( informal ) super very (intensifier)Synonyms: muito bastante bué mega super (invariable
super Borrowed fromFrench super Doublet ofspre
super m or f or n indeclinable )
superb ,great Declension ofsuper (invariable) singular plural masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine nominative- indefinite super super super super definite — — — — genitive- indefinite super super super super definite — — — —
super
superbly FromLatin super
super
on ,on top of ,above Synonym: supra Borrowed fromLatin super super sobre
super (invariable
( intensifier ) very ,mega IPA (key ) : /²sʉːpɛr/ IPA (key ) : [ˈsʉːpːær] (Finland, verb)IPA (key ) : [ˈsʉpær] (Finland, adjective)super
present indicative ofsupa super (notcomparable )
perfect ,super excellent ,great det blirsuper ! ―that's going to begreat ! Only used predicatively.
