surpassing

Speech parts

1. surpassing - Noun

2. surpassing - Adjective

3. surpassing - Verb

5. surpassing - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

of Surpass

Eminently excellent; exceeding others.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Synonyms

exceeding olympian beyond exceptional towering prodigious transcendent eclipsing outdoing outstripping transcending greater than supreme excel over
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Antonyms

bush common little low lower normal
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Examples

Life is occupied in both perpetuating itself and in surpassing itself; if all it does is maintain itself, then living is only not dying. Simone de Beauvoir

One need not be a chamber to be haunted One need not be a house The brain has corridors surpassing Material place. Emily Dickinson

It is the gods' custom to bring low all things of surpassing greatness. Herodotus

It was a sight surpassing all precedent, and one we never dreamed of seeing. Howard Carter

Three things give the student the possibility of surpassing his teacher: ask a lot of questions, remember the answers, teach. John Amos Comenius

We were astonished by the beauty and refinement of the art displayed by the objects surpassing all we could have imagined - the impression was overwhelming. Howard Carter

Close letter words and terms

surpass surpassable surpasser surpassingly surpassingness surpassive