different between incomparable vs supreme

English

Etymology

From Middle French incomparable, from Old French [Term?], from Latin incompar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /???k?mp(?)r?b?l/, /??k?m?pær?b?l/
• (General American) IPA^(key): /???k?mp(?)r?b?l/, /??k?m?p?r?b?l/

Adjective

incomparable (comparative more incomparable, superlative most incomparable)

1. So much better than another as to be beyond comparison; matchless or unsurpassed.
   • c. 1905, Oscar Wilde, De Profundis, (1909), Robert Baldwin Ross, ed., page 112:

     I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

2. (rare) Not able to be compared.

Usage notes

• Using more or most with incomparable, though often disapproved, is relatively common. Such uses may once have only been accepted for poetic effect, but are now widespread.
• Despite its apparently absolute meaning, incomparable is often used as if there were degrees of incomparability, occurring with adverbs such as so and very.

Derived terms

Related terms

Translations

Noun

incomparable (plural incomparables)

1. Something beyond compare; a thing with which there is no comparison.

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin incompar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /i?.kom.p???a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /i?.kum.p???a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /i?.kom.pa??a.ble/

Adjective

incomparable (masculine and feminine plural incomparables)

1. uncomparable, incomparable

   Antonym: comparable

Derived terms

• incomparablement

Further reading

• “incomparable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “incomparable” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “incomparable” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “incomparable” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Etymology

From Latin incompar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??.k??.pa.?abl/

Adjective

incomparable (plural incomparables)

1. incomparable; uncomparable

   Antonym: comparable

Derived terms

• incomparablement

Further reading

• “incomparable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin incompar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /inkompa??able/, [??.kõm.pa??a.??le]

Adjective

incomparable (plural incomparables)

1. uncomparable

   Antonym: comparable

Derived terms

• incomparablemente

Further reading

• “incomparable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Alternative forms

• suprême

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French suprême, from Latin supremus, superlative of superus (“that is above”). Doublet of supremo.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?s(j)u??p?i?m/

Adjective

supreme (comparative supremer or more supreme, superlative supremest or most supreme)

1. Dominant, having power over all others.
2. (sometimes postpositive) Greatest, most excellent, extreme, most superior, highest, or utmost.
   • For quotations using this term, see Citations:supreme.
3. (botany) Situated at the highest part or point.

Synonyms

• (having power over all others): predominant, preponderant, regnant

Antonyms

• inferior
• minor

Derived terms

Related terms

• super

Translations

Verb

supreme (third-person singular simple present supremes, present participle supreming, simple past and past participle supremed)

1. (transitive, cooking) To divide a citrus fruit into its segments, removing the skin, pith, membranes, and seeds.

Noun

supreme (plural supremes)

1. The highest point.
2. (cooking) A pizza having a large number of the most common toppings, such as pepperoni, bell peppers, onions, mushrooms, olives, etc.
3. (cooking) A breast of chicken or duck with the wing bone attached.
4. (cooking) Anything from which all skin, bones, and other parts which are not eaten have been removed, such as a skinless fish fillet.

Further reading

• supreme in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• supreme in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.
• supreme at OneLook Dictionary Search

Anagrams

• eusperm, presume

Interlingua

Adjective

supreme (comparative plus supreme, superlative le plus supreme)

1. supreme

Italian

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /su?pr?me/, [s?u?pr???.me]
• Rhymes: -?me
• Hyphenation: su?pre?me

Adjective

supreme

1. feminine plural of supremo

Anagrams

• presume

Latin

Adjective

supr?me

1. vocative masculine singular of supr?mus