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comparative superber, superlative superbest
First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good. quotations examples
Captain Edward Carlisle […] felt a curious sensation of helplessness seize upon him as he met her steady gaze, […]; he could not tell what this prisoner might do. He cursed the fate which had assigned such a duty, cursed especially that fate which forced a gallant soldier to meet so superb a woman as this under handicap so hard.
1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company
Grand; magnificent; august; stately. examples
(dated) Haughty. quotations examples
A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away.
1858, Julia Kavanagh, Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2, page 235