I.
noun
ADJECTIVE
▪ direct , immediate
▪
The form has to be signed by your immediate ~.
▪ intellectual , moral , social
▪ military , religious
VERB + SUPERIOR
▪ inform , tell
▪ report sb/sth to
▪
She threatened to report the assistant to his ~s.
II.
adj.
VERBS
▪ be , look , prove (yourself) , seem
▪ feel (yourself)
▪
She felt (herself) ~ to the other children.
▪ become
▪ make sth
▪
What is it that makes this technique ~?
▪ consider sth , see sth as
▪
I don't see either product as ~ to the other.
ADVERB
▪ clearly , distinctly , far , greatly , markedly , vastly
▪
The new products are far ~ to the old ones.
▪
They defeated a greatly ~ Roman army.
▪ altogether , infinitely
▪
Plainly, you possess an altogether ~ intellect.
▪
The house was infinitely ~ to the kind of thing most men of my age could aspire to.
▪ rather , slightly , somewhat
▪ inherently , intrinsically , naturally
▪ supposedly
▪ undoubtedly
▪ numerically
▪
the numerically ~ (= larger in numbers) British forces
▪ genetically , intellectually , morally , socially , technically , technologically ( esp. AmE )
PREPOSITION
▪ in
▪
a microwave that is vastly ~ in design to all other models
▪ to
▪
She felt socially ~ to the rest of the group.
Superior is used with these nouns: ↑ court , ↑ force , ↑ intellect , ↑ officer , ↑ quality , ↑ rank , ↑ result , ↑ skill , ↑ status , ↑ strength