Word Meanings - SURPASSING - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SURPASSING)

• Superior
• Higher
• upper
• better
• preferable
• surpassing
• loftier
• excellent
• remarkable
• eminent
• conspicuous
• Superlative
• Supreme
• transcendent
• greatest
• highest
• extreme
• consummate
• extraordinary
• Transcendent
• Consummate
• egregious
• superior
• unexampled
• insurpassable
• unattainable
• supreme
• matchless
• unrivalled
• peerless
• incomparable
• supereminent

Possible antonyms: (opposite words of SURPASSING)

• Neglect
• drop
• interrupt
• nullify
• undo
• baffle
• frustrate
• mar
• defeat
• spoil

Related words: (words related to SURPASSING)

• CONSUMMATELY
  In a consummate manner; completely. T. Warton.
• UNEXAMPLED
  Having no example or similar case; being without precedent; unprecedented; unparalleled. "A revolution . . . unexampled for grandeur of results." De Quincey.
• HIGHER-UP
  A superior officer or official; -- used chiefly in pl.
• SURPASS
  To go beyond in anything good or bad; to exceed; to excel. This would surpass Common revenge and interrupt his joy. Milton. Syn. -- To exceed; excel; outdo; outstrip.
• BAFFLE
  1. To practice deceit. Barrow. 2. To struggle against in vain; as, a ship baffles with the winds.
• SUPREME
  Situated at the highest part or point. The Supreme, the Almighty; God. (more info) above, upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. 1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power. He that
• UPPERMOST
  Highest in place, position, rank, power, or the like; upmost; supreme. Whatever faction happens to be uppermost. Swift.
• HIGHERING
  Rising higher; ascending. In ever highering eagle circles. Tennyson.
• CONSPICUOUS
  1. Open to the view; obvious to the eye; easy to be seen; plainly visible; manifest; attracting the eye. It was a rock Of alabaster, piled up to the clouds, Conspicious far. Milton. Conspicious by her veil and hood, Signing the cross, the abbess
• SURPASSING
  Eminently excellent; exceeding others. "With surpassing glory crowned." Milton. -- Sur*pass"ing*ly, adv. -- Sur*pass"ing*ness, n.
• SUPERLATIVE
  Expressing the highest or lowest degree of the quality, manner, etc., denoted by an adjective or an adverb. The superlative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -est, most, or least; as, highest, most pleasant, least bright.
• INTERRUPTION
  1. The act of interrupting, or breaking in upon. 2. The state of being interrupted; a breach or break, caused by the abrupt intervention of something foreign; intervention; interposition. Sir M. Hale. Lest the interruption of time cause you to
• EXTREMELESS
  Having no extremes; infinite.
• UPPERTENDOM
  The highest class in society; the upper ten. See Upper ten, under Upper.
• EGREGIOUSNESS
  The state of being egregious.
• TRANSCENDENT
  That which surpasses or is supereminent; that which is very excellent.
• BAFFLEMENT
  The process or act of baffling, or of being baffled; frustration; check.
• NEGLECT
  1. Omission of proper attention; avoidance or disregard of duty, from heedlessness, indifference, or willfulness; failure to do, use, or heed anything; culpable disregard; as, neglect of business, of health, of economy. To tell thee sadly,
• INTERRUPT
  1. To break into, or between; to stop, or hinder by breaking in upon the course or progress of; to interfere with the current or motion of; to cause a temporary cessation of; as, to interrupt the remarks speaking. Do not interrupt me in my course.
• TRANSCENDENTAL
  A transcendentalist.
• FRUSTRATE
  Vain; ineffectual; useless; unprofitable; null; voil; nugatory; of no effect. "Our frustrate search." Shak. (more info) to deceive, frustrate, fr. frustra in vain, witout effect, in erorr,
• PREEMINENT
  Eminent above others; prominent among those who are eminent; superior in excellence; surpassing, or taking precedence of, others; rarely, surpassing others in evil, or in bad qualities; as, preëminent in guilt. In goodness and in power preëminent.
• INCONSUMMATE
  Not consummated; not finished; incomplete. Sir M. Hale. -- In`con*sum"mate*ness, n.
• ABETTER; ABETTOR
  One who abets; an instigator of an offense or an offender. Note: The form abettor is the legal term and also in general use. Syn. -- Abettor, Accessory, Accomplice. These words denote different degrees of complicity in some deed or crime. An abettor