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As nouns the difference between superior and better

is that superior is a person of higher rank or quality while better is an entity, usually animate, deemed superior to another; one who has a claim to precedence; a superior or better can be (bettor).

What makes something superior?

1 : situated higher up : higher in rank, importance, numbers, or quality. 2 : excellent of its kind : better a superior athlete. 3 : showing the feeling of being better or more important than others : arrogant a superior smirk.

What is a superior attitude?

1 greater in quality, quantity, etc. 2 of high or extraordinary worth, merit, etc. 3 higher in rank or status. a superior tribunal. 4 displaying a conscious sense of being above or better than others; supercilious.

What do you call someone that thinks they’re always right?

There are many words to describe someone who always needs to be right, including indomitable, adamant, unrelenting, insistent, intransigent, obdurate, unshakeable, dictatorial.

Why do I feel superior to everyone else?

A superiority complex is a behavior that suggests a person believes they’re somehow superior to others. People with this complex often have exaggerated opinions of themselves. … However, a superiority complex may actually be hiding low self-esteem or a sense of inferiority.

What is the meaning of superior eyes?

Explanation: higher in rank, status, or quality. having or showing an overly high opinion of oneself; conceited. Niccherip5 and 42 more users found this answer helpful. Thanks 23.

What does superior love mean?

1 tr to have a great attachment to and affection for. 2 tr to have passionate desire, longing, and feelings for. 3 tr to like or desire (to do something) very much. 4 tr to make love to.

What is the meaning of superior culture?

Ethnocentrism is a belief in the superiority of your own culture. It results from judging other cultures by your own cultural ideals. Ethnocentrism is linked to cultural blind spots. … They act as social codes to guide individuals’ behaviour as they strive to fit in and succeed in a particular cultural context.

How do I stop myself from feeling superior?

Below, some tips to help control the feelings of superiority:

How do you deal with family members who think they are better than you?

7 Strategies to Deal With Difficult Family Members

What is the word for thinking you are better than everyone else?

Superiority is the quality of being better than or superior to someone else. … Of course, sometimes superiority is all in your head; in that case, some people might say you have a superiority complex, which means that you think you’re better than everyone else!

What do you call someone who never admits they’re wrong?

ĭn-fălə-bəl. The definition of infallible is someone or something that is always perfect and right, without any errors or mistakes. An example of infallible are the decisions of God. adjective.

What are synonyms for narcissist?

synonyms for narcissistic

What’s another word for Superior in anatomy?

Superior. Synonyms: cranial or cephalad. Antonyms : inferior or caudal. Abbreviated: above. Full: Toward the head end or upper part of a structure or the body; above.

What do you call someone who thinks they are smarter than they are?

The Dunning-Kruger effect is a type of cognitive bias in which people believe that they are smarter and more capable than they really are. Essentially, low ability people do not possess the skills needed to recognize their own incompetence.

What is the root of the word superior?

Superior comes from the Latin word meaning above and it literally means something that is above others in quality or status.

How do you use the word superior?

How do you make someone feel superior?

Make Other People Feel Important

Do narcissists have a superiority complex?

What are the signs of inferiority complex?

Some signs may include:

Etymology is the study of the origin of words and their changes in structure and significance.

A noun is a type of word the meaning of which determines reality. Nouns provide the names for all things: people, objects, sensations, feelings, etc.

The adjective is the word that accompanies the noun to determine or qualify it.

Superior

Superior may refer to: ▪ Superior: something which is higher in a hierarchical structure of any kind…

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The man who prefers his country before any other duty shows the same spirit as the man who surrenders every right to the state. They both deny that right is superior to authority.

The natural liberty of man is to be free from any superior power on Earth, and not to be under the will or legislative authority of man, but only to have the law of nature for his rule.

Nothing splendid has ever been achieved except by those who dared believe that something inside them was superior to circumstance.

It is well, when judging a friend, to remember that he is judging you with the same godlike and superior impartiality.

What moves me is neither ethnocentric pride nor sectarian arrogance. I make no claim that Jewish culture is superior to other cultures. But it is mine.

Very good wine was bought at ten pounds per pipe, the contract price; but the superior quality was fifteen pounds; and some of this was not much inferior to the best London Madeira.

Innocence of heart and violence of feeling are necessary in any kind of superior achievement: The arts cannot exist without them.

Sight and touch, being thus increased in capacity, might belong to some species far superior to man; or rather the human species would be far different had all the senses been thus improved.

The thing is, I really can’t relate to anyone my own age. Not in a superior way — an inferior way, if anything. Socially, I have no idea what my friends are talking about. I don’t listen to any new music. I feel very secluded.

It is chiefly through books that we enjoy intercourse with superior minds. In the best books, great men talk to us, give us their most precious thoughts, and pour their souls into ours.

1

The Superior Person’s Book of Words

This book will teach you the practical riches of saying it well with good words, neglected words, precise words for vocabular exaltation.

2

The Way of the Superior Man: A Spiritual Guide to Mastering …

The Ultimate Spiritual Guide for MenWhat is your true purpose in life?

3

Designing and Delivering Superior Customer Value: Concepts, …

This book stresses the service aspects of an organization — especially customer service, marketing, and organizational responsiveness, and how to create and provide outstanding customer value to the target market(s).

4

The Superior Person’s Second Book of Weird and Wondrous Words

Gathers a wide range of definitions for precise but neglected words chosen to enrich one’s vocabulary and insult one’s adversaries

5

Superior Customer Value: Strategies for Winning and …

Art Weinstein discusses the book in several videos on the CRC Press YouTube Channel.

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Benchmarking: The Search for Industry Best Practices That …

Camp guides readers through the historic ten-step benchmarking process that he developed while at Xerox. This process is credited with reviving that company when it was floundering in 1979.

But that was when he could still move his legs. Now he’s living with MS, and escaping into the world of movies and comics with his best friend. Then — Superior enters his life.

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Win Your Lawsuit: Sue in California Superior Court Without a …

Written by Roderic Duncan, a retired California Superior Court judge, this book includes the legal insight and practical tips that only a judge with over 25 years of experience can provide.

This book examines the nature and causal antecedents of superior memory performance.

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The Keys to the Kingdom #6: Superior Saturday

“Neither,” said Arthur. “Someone put those drills to work, and that someone pretty
much has to be Superior Saturday, doesn’t it? Or Lord Sunday, working with her, I
suppose, though that bit of paper poor old Ugham had suggests otherwise.

Europe’s Taste For Caviar Is Putting Pressure On A Great Lakes Fish

Lake Superior is the largest freshwater lake in the world, by surface area, and it has something the other Great Lakes do not: stable populations of mostly native … «NPR, Jul 15»

Chicago homicide suspect arrested in Superior

SUPERIOR, Wis. (AP) — Sheriff’s officials say a man wanted for killing a 7-year-old boy in Chicago has been arrested in northwestern Wisconsin. Douglas … «WMTV, Jul 15»

Two people escape injury after plane crash-lands at Superior airport

The Superior Fire Department responded to the crash at 2:14 p.m., and the first crews on the scene found a small plane in a field behind the Upper Deck … «Duluth News Tribune, May 15»

Crews respond to fire in tank at Calumet refinery in Superior

An empty asphalt tank caught fire at the Calumet oil refinery in Superior on Tuesday afternoon, prompting the evacuation of nonessential personnel at the facility … «Duluth News Tribune, Apr 15»

Icy Traffic Jam On Lake Superior Has 18 Ships Stuck

Huge ice chunks stacked some 8 feet deep on Lake Superior have left 18 freighters stuck. The U.S. and Canadian Coast Guards have gotten involved, sending … «NPR, Apr 15»

Journey To Lake Superior Ice Caves

Contributor Pam Wright journeyed to the Apostle Islands National Lake Shore on Lake Superior last week. Her images capture the frozen beauty of the shore … «Gear Junkie, Mar 15»

Thousands visit Lake Superior ice caves; photos are awe-inspiring

In order to see the caves, Lake Superior has to freeze enough for spectators to walk over ice to the caves. The ice was thick enough for the caves to open on … «USA TODAY, Mar 15»

VIDEO: Lake Superior Ice Project comes crashing down

“It’s unfortunate it happened,” said Dave Minor, president and CEO of the Superior/Douglas County Chamber of Commerce. “Obviously it wasn’t planned, it’s not … «Duluth News Tribune, Feb 15»

Tragic day on North Shore: 2 Wisconsin men drown in Lake Superior

Amid flares dropping from a plane above to illuminate the dark, turbulent, fog-shrouded waters of Lake Superior, a U.S. Coast Guard boat crew battled the … «Duluth News Tribune, Dec 14»

MEN’S HOCKEY: UND stages furious rally to beat Lake Superior …

UND stormed back from a 4-1 deficit to beat Lake Superior State 7-4 on Friday night in front of 11,118 fans that got progressively louder as college hockey’s … «Grand Forks Herald, Dec 14»

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He finished his service in Africa… and his superiors had not been lenient at the time of his discharge… he’d still be serving time in a penal battalion… and would not be here today.

Он вышел в отставку в Африке, и если бы его начальство было более пристрастно, он бы все еще служил в штрафном батальоне и не был бы здесь сегодня.

Well, think what your superiors are going to say.

Ну, подумайте, что ваше начальство скажет.

His superiors will send for him as soon as they notice his absence.

Его начальство пошлёт за ним, как только они заметят его отсутствие.

If I convince my superiors to release you, it would be interesting if you could talk to them.

Мне было бы занятно, если бы вы, если мне удастся убедить начальство освободить вас, поговорили с ними.

My superiors have no obligation to explain their directives to me.

. Мое начальство не должно ничего объяснять ни мне, ни, тем более, Вам.

He’s my superior.

Он мой начальник.

I am your superior.

Я ваш начальник.

And since he is your superior officer, you might at least show him a little respect.

И так, как он твой начальник, ты могла бы, по крайней мере, проявить к нему немного уважения.

My superior, Sir Colin Thackeray, has a daily video link.

Вы поддерживаете связь с экспедицией? Мой начальник, сэр Колин Тэкерей, поддерживает ежедневную видеосвязь.

Where’s your superior?

Где твой начальник?

Sr. Superior is really sorry that she’s unfortunately indisposed.

Госпожа настоятельница просит прощение за свое отсутствие, она нездорова

Sr. Superior does without butter.

— Настоятельница обходится без масла

Our new pupil, Sr. Superior.

Наша новая ученица, настоятельница.

— Feeling better dear Sr. Superior?

— Чувствуете себя лучше, госпожа настоятельница?

— Sure, Sr. Superior.

— Да, госпожа настоятельница

Though now that you remind me, he was in many ways superior to Etienne.

Впрочем, ты напомнил мне, что он во многом превосходит Этьена.

Their weapons were far superior to ours.

Их оружее намного превосходит наше.

Obviously their weaponry is superior to ours, and they have a practical invisibility screen.

Очевидно, что их оружие превосходит наше, и у них есть практически невидимый щит.

— After what they’ve been through… — Dr. McCoy, I’ve heard you say that man is ultimately superior

Д-р Маккой, я слышал, как вы сказали, что человек безусловно превосходит

Its decisions are superior those that could take a human.

јдекватность его решений, превосходит человеческую.

…a superior brain…

-…превосходный разум….

I hesitate to do this with Paula in the car. But I am a superior driver and I will batter you into submission if need be! I will bump you off this highway!

Меня сдерживает присутствие Полы, но я превосходный водитель, и если что разнесу тебя до полного подчинения.

Uh… ow! Your superior intellect is no match for our puny weapons.

Ваш превосходный ум не может противостоять нашему оружию.

A superior specimen.

Превосходный экземпляр.

I find Vim a very superior scourer.

Я нахожу, что «Вим» — превосходный скребок.

And if the superior court judge buys his performance, he’ll be committed.

И если высший суд купится на его исполнение, то я не удивлюсь.

I look forward to communicating my pleasure to mu superior in flight.

Я надеюсь передавать свое удовольствие на mu высший в полете.

You’II be in either a Superior or Inferior class

Вы можете попасть и в высший, и в низший класс.

But… he realized dexter is the superior morgan.

Но… Он понял, что Декстер — высший Морган.

Next thing, she’ll be going to bed with maria elena and glorifying it as some kind of superior alternative lifestyle

Следующее, что она сделает, — ляжет в постель с Марией Еленой и восславит это как некий высший альтернативный стиль жизни

Pretending to our humanity by destroying it is hardly proof of a superior race.

Симулируя наше человечество, разрушая его, едва ли доказательство превосходящей расы.

Well, as I said, many who fought the Minbari during the war felt they were up against a vastly superior technological force and, in fact, at that time and under that administration, that was correct.

Ну, как я и сказал, многие, кто воевали с Минбари считали, что столкнулись со значительно превосходящей технологией и, на самом деле, в то время и при той администрации, это было правдой.

We have nothing to fear… but the aliens and their vastly superior killing technology.

Нам нечего бояться, кроме инопланетян с их безмерно превосходящей нашу смертоносной технологией.

These hostiles we are up against possess technology so far superior to our own, we don’t have the faintest idea how it works.

Этот враг обладает технологией, намного превосходящей нашу, и мы не имеем малейшего понятия как она работает.

The alien vessel has superior firepower.

Инопланетное судно обладает превосходящей огневой мощью.

I mean, we must be increasingly on the alert… to prevent them from taking over other mine shaft space… in order to breed more prodigiously than we do… thus knocking us out through superior numbers when we emerge!

Мы должны быть все более и более бдительны чтобы не допустить захвата наших шахт тогда они будут размножаться лучше чем мы и таким образом получат численное превосходство!

Our superior strength is useless there.

Наше превосходство в численности здесь не поможет.

Then you could feel superior and see me at the same time.

Ты почувствуешь превосходство, и в то же время увидишь меня.

In 1936 a very faint television signal transmitted the opening ceremonies of the Olympic Games as a show of German superior technology.

В 1936-ом году слабый телесигнал переданный с открытия Oлимпиады должен был доказать техническое превосходство Германии.

But not to laugh like the banal laughter you get when people realize that they’re superior to the thing they’re laughing at, but another kind of laughter, a definitive laughter, a laughter in Nietzschean conditions; a tragic laughter.

Но не так смеяться… как мы обычно это делаем, когда замечаем наше превосходство над тем, над чем смеемся… Я говорю о совершенно конкретном смехе. Смех Ницше трагичен.

You’re my superior officer.

Вы — мой старший офицер.

If I have to order you as your superior officer, I will.

Я настаиваю. Если я должен приказать вам, как ваш старший офицер, я прикажу.

— What superior ?

— Кто тут старший?

As your superior officer I’m telling you to take the runabout and get the hell off this moon.

Как ваш старший офицер, я приказываю вам взять катер и уносить ноги с этой луны…

— Why? She’s my superior officer.

Она — мой старший офицер.

Your superiors made the statement that failure of this mission would be as catastrophic for Federation planning as it would be for our two planets.

Ваше руководство заявило, что провал этой миссии будет не меньшей катастрофой для планов Федерации, чем для наших планет.

My superiors are worried about the press.

Руководство беспокоится насчет прессы.

I was appointed by your superiors.

Меня назначило ваше руководство

— Who does? Your superior?

А кто, твоё руководство?

— Germain, my superiors…

— Жермен, моё руководство…

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