Superordinate

Word SUPERORDINATE
Character 13
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Definitions and meanings of "Superordinate"

What do we mean by superordinate?

Of higher rank, status, or value. adjective

Of or being the relation of a broader category to a narrower category that it encompasses, such as metal in relation to iron. adjective

In zoology, having the rank or value of a superorder; being above the rank of an order.

Related as a universal proposition to a particular one in the same terms.

Greater in degree, rank or position adjective

The relation of a universal proposition to a specific proposition of the same form with the universal quantified variable replaced by a specific instance. adjective

Hypernymic adjective

That which is superordinate. noun

A hypernym. noun

To cause to be superordinate. verb

One of greater rank or station or quality noun

Of higher rank or status or value adjective

Place in a superior order or rank verb

A word that is more generic than a given word noun

That which is superordinate.

A hypernym.

Solves that problem by the way. Urban Dictionary

A Superordinate JJ break is a break in between sets where you take less than a second to rest your muscles. The reason is that the whole friend group is out biking while you're alone in the gym. The likelihood of a muscle tear is very high but in the end, it is worth it because you'll have time to bike with your friends. Urban Dictionary

Synonyms and Antonyms for Superordinate

The word "superordinate" in example sentences

One thing the couples in these good marriages have in common is a vision of the marriage as a "superordinate" entity -- something that is separate from and larger than its two parts. ❋ Unknown (1995)

As the efficacious bearer and transmitter of the Divine Spirit of Love to mankind Jesus is "superordinate" to all men, and has in the eternal decree of God a merely ideal pre-existence. ❋ 1840-1916 (1913)

If G1 is superordinate to G2, then G1's differentiae will be a subset of G2's differentiae. ❋ Jonathan Aquino (2009)

The state structure of civil society has a particular regulative role, but not a superordinate role, among the societal spheres. ❋ Unknown (2010)

It became my superordinate goal to read every word that London had written. ❋ Unknown (2010)

Public safety nets rely on the idea that a group or society is a superordinate entity for which individuals are morally obligated to sacrifice. ❋ Wendy Milling (2011)

Contrary to this, you suggest that the relative pronoun takes the case corresponding to its syntactic role in the superordinate clause. ❋ Unknown (2010)

However, what about children abuse - preventing such abuse seems to require laws superordinate to the property laws. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Basically the superordinate power of the state and states in lives of „citizens. ❋ Unknown (2009)

Austin Dacey is right that sometimes superordinate goals should trump more parochial concerns. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Selection of a presumably impartial outsider as constitutional monarch is consistent with the tendency for a leader of an organization to be acknowledged as the one organizational member with the legitimate power to play the role of final arbitrator, the superordinate whose judgment can settle disputes among political factions. ❋ Bernard M. Bass (2008)

That is, even if diseases are natural kinds, the superordinate category of disease may not be. ❋ Murphy, Dominic (2008)

Constructivism, however, argues that human interests do not just define the superordinate class of disease. ❋ Murphy, Dominic (2008)

Philolaus distinguishes between numbers as individual species and their genera, even and odd, i.e. between subordinate and superordinate universals, as well as between numbers and things, i.e. between types and tokens, e.g. four and four pebbles. ❋ Huffman, Carl (2008)

There is no sovereign source of law superordinate to those countries, from which a body of law can flow. ❋ Unknown (2008)

Critics of the Robber's Cave experiment muse that if the two groups had failed to achieve their superordinate goal (turning the water back on for the campers; turning the credit back on for the Congress) then the groups would have blamed each other. ❋ Unknown (2008)

These are education (about the long-term, distributed impacts); insurance; superordinate authority (i.e., legal systems, government, religion); and converting the trap to a trade-off. ❋ Unknown (2008)

[Hym] "I'm [the chief] [proponent] of 'Superordinate Time theory' but I see what you mean." ❋ Hym Iam (2023)

[JJ]: The whole [friend group] is out and [I don't wanna] be here, so my plan is to have Superordinate JJ breaks to have time to bike with the boys. ❋ Aluminum Ballsack (2023)

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