| superior | (adjective) written or printed above and to one side of another character | Synonyms: superscript |
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| (adjective) of or characteristic of high rank or importance | - |
| (adjective) of high or superior quality or performance | - |
| (adjective) having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit | - |
| (adjective) (sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by | - |
| (adjective) having a higher rank | Synonyms: higher-ranking, ranking |
| (adjective) (often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by | - |
| superjacent | (adjective) lying immediately above or on something else | - |
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| superlative | (adjective) highest in quality | Synonyms: greatest, sterling |
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| superlunar | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunary, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunary, translunar, translunary |
| superlunary | (adjective) situated beyond the moon or its orbit around the earth | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
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| (adjective) unworldly or ethereal | Synonyms: superlunar, translunar, translunary |
| supernal | (adjective) being or coming from on high | - |
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| (adjective) of heaven or the spirit | Synonyms: celestial, ethereal |
| supernatant | (adjective) of a liquid; floating on the surface above a sediment or precipitate | - |
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| supernatural | (adjective) not existing in nature or subject to explanation according to natural laws; not physical or material | - |
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| supernaturalist | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalistic |
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| supernaturalistic | (adjective) of or relating to supernaturalism | Synonyms: supernaturalist |
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| supernormal | (adjective) exceeding the normal or average | - |
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| (adjective) beyond the range of the normal or scientifically explainable | Synonyms: supranormal |
| supernumerary | (adjective) more than is needed, desired, or required | Synonyms: excess, extra, redundant, spare, supererogatory, superfluous, surplus |
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| superordinate | (adjective) of higher rank or status or value | - |
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| superpatriotic | (adjective) fanatically patriotic | Synonyms: chauvinistic, flag-waving, jingoistic, nationalistic, ultranationalistic |
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| superposable | (adjective) coinciding exactly when superimposed | Synonyms: identical |
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| supersaturated | (adjective) being more concentrated than normally possible and therefore not in equilibrium | - |
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| superscript | (adjective) written or printed above and to one side of another character | Synonyms: superior |
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| supersensitised | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitive, supersensitized |
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| supersensitive | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitized |
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| supersensitized | (adjective) having an allergy or peculiar or excessive susceptibility (especially to a specific factor) | Synonyms: allergic, hypersensitised, hypersensitive, hypersensitized, sensitised, sensitized, supersensitised, supersensitive |
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| supersonic | (adjective) (of speed) greater than the speed of sound in a given medium (especially air) | - |
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| (adjective) having frequencies above those of audible sound | Synonyms: ultrasonic |
| superstitious | (adjective) showing ignorance of the laws of nature and faith in magic or chance | - |
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| supervised | (adjective) under observation or under the direction of a superintendent or overseer | - |
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| supervisory | (adjective) of or limited to or involving supervision | - |
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| supine | (adjective) passive as a result of indolence or indifference | - |
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| (adjective) lying face upward | Synonyms: resupine |
| supperless | (adjective) without supper | - |
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| supple | (adjective) (used of e.g. personality traits) readily adaptable | Synonyms: limber |
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| (adjective) gracefully thin and bending and moving with ease | Synonyms: lissom, lissome, lithe, lithesome, sinuous |
| (adjective) (used of persons' bodies) capable of moving or bending freely | Synonyms: limber |
| supplemental | (adjective) added to complete or make up a deficiency | Synonyms: supplementary |
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| (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplementary |
| supplementary | (adjective) added to complete or make up a deficiency | Synonyms: supplemental |
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| (adjective) functioning in a supporting capacity | Synonyms: auxiliary, subsidiary, supplemental |
| suppliant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: supplicant, supplicatory |
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| supplicant | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicatory |
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| supplicatory | (adjective) humbly entreating | Synonyms: suppliant, supplicant |
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| supportable | (adjective) capable of being borne though unpleasant | Synonyms: bearable, endurable, sufferable |
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| supported | (adjective) held up or having the weight borne especially from below | - |
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| (adjective) sustained or maintained by aid (as distinct from physical support) | - |
| supporting | (adjective) capable of bearing a structural load | Synonyms: load-bearing |
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| (adjective) furnishing support and encouragement | Synonyms: encouraging |
| supportive | (adjective) furnishing support or assistance | - |
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| supposable | (adjective) capable of being inferred on slight grounds | Synonyms: presumable, surmisable |
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| supposed | (adjective) required or under orders | - |
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| (adjective) doubtful or suspect | Synonyms: alleged, so-called |
| (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, suppositional, suppositious, supposititious |
| (adjective) mistakenly believed | - |
| suppositional | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositious, supposititious |
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| suppositious | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, supposititious |
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| supposititious | (adjective) based primarily on surmise rather than adequate evidence | Synonyms: conjectural, divinatory, hypothetic, hypothetical, supposed, suppositional, suppositious |
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| suppressed | (adjective) kept from public knowledge by various means | - |
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| (adjective) manifesting or subjected to suppression | - |
| (adjective) held in check with difficulty | Synonyms: smothered, stifled, strangled |
| suppressive | (adjective) tending to suppress | - |
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| suppurative | (adjective) relating to or characterized by suppuration | - |
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| supranational | (adjective) transcending established national boundaries or spheres of interest | - |
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| supranormal | (adjective) beyond the range of the normal or scientifically explainable | Synonyms: supernormal |
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| supraocular | (adjective) located or occurring above the eye socket | Synonyms: supraorbital |
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| supraorbital | (adjective) located or occurring above the eye socket | Synonyms: supraocular |
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| suprasegmental | (adjective) pertaining to a feature of speech that extends over more than a single speech sound | - |
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| supreme | (adjective) greatest in status or authority or power | Synonyms: sovereign |
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| (adjective) greatest or maximal in degree; extreme | Synonyms: sublime |
| (adjective) highest in excellence or achievement | - |
| (adjective) final or last in your life or progress | - |
| syrupy | (adjective) with honey added | Synonyms: honeyed, honied |
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| (adjective) overly sweet | Synonyms: cloying, saccharine, treacly |
| (adjective) having a relatively high resistance to flow | Synonyms: viscous |
| taupe | (adjective) of something having a dusky brownish grey color | Synonyms: fuscous |
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| toupeed | (adjective) wearing a small hairpiece to cover partial baldness | - |
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| tuppeny | (adjective) of trifling worth | Synonyms: sixpenny, threepenny, two-a-penny, twopenny-halfpenny, twopenny |
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| uncorrupted | (adjective) (of language) not having its purity or excellence debased | Synonyms: undefiled |
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| (adjective) not debased | - |
| (adjective) not decayed or decomposed | Synonyms: unspoiled |
| uncoupled | (adjective) having the coupling undone | - |
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| uninterrupted | (adjective) continuing in time or space without interruption | Synonyms: continuous |
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| (adjective) having undisturbed continuity | - |
| unoccupied | (adjective) not held or filled or in use | - |
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| (adjective) not seized and controlled | - |
| (adjective) not leased to or occupied by a tenant | Synonyms: untenanted |
| unscrupulous | (adjective) without scruples or principles | - |
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| unsupervised | (adjective) not supervised or under constant observation | - |
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| unsupportable | (adjective) not able to be supported or defended | - |
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| unsupported | (adjective) not held up or borne | - |
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| (adjective) not sustained or maintained by nonmaterial aid | - |
| unsupportive | (adjective) not furnishing support or assistance | - |
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| unsuppressed | (adjective) given vent to | - |
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| up | (adjective) being or moving higher in position or greater in some value; being above a former position or level | - |
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| (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: upward |
| (adjective) out of bed | Synonyms: astir |
| (adjective) used up | - |
| (adjective) (used of computers) operating properly | - |
| (adjective) (usually followed by `on' or `for') in readiness | - |
| (adjective) open | - |
| (adjective) getting higher or more vigorous | Synonyms: improving |
| upbeat | (adjective) pleasantly (even unrealistically) optimistic | Synonyms: cheerful, pollyannaish |
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| upbound | (adjective) heading in any direction that is conventionally up | - |
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| upcoming | (adjective) of the relatively near future | Synonyms: approaching, coming, forthcoming |
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| upcountry | (adjective) of or coming from the middle of a region or country | Synonyms: interior, midland |
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| upcurved | (adjective) curving upward | - |
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| upended | (adjective) turned up on end | - |
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| upfield | (adjective) away from the defending teams' end of the playing field | - |
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| upfront | (adjective) frank and honest | - |
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| uphill | (adjective) sloping upward | Synonyms: acclivitous, rising |
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| upland | (adjective) used of high or hilly country | Synonyms: highland |
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| uplifted | (adjective) exalted emotionally especially with pride | - |
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| upmarket | (adjective) designed for consumers with high incomes | - |
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| upmost | (adjective) at or nearest to the top | Synonyms: topmost, uppermost |
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| upper | (adjective) the topmost one of two; upper | - |
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| (adjective) higher in place or position | - |
| (adjective) superior in rank or accomplishment | - |
| uppercase | (adjective) relating to capital letters which were kept in the top half of a compositor's type case | - |
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| uppermost | (adjective) at or nearest to the top | Synonyms: topmost, upmost |
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| uppish | (adjective) (used colloquially) overly conceited or arrogant | Synonyms: bigheaded, persnickety, snooty, snot-nosed, snotty, stuck-up, too big for one's breeches |
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| uppity | (adjective) presumptuously arrogant | Synonyms: overweening |
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| upraised | (adjective) held up in the air | Synonyms: lifted |
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| upright | (adjective) upright in position or posture | Synonyms: erect, vertical |
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| (adjective) of moral excellence | Synonyms: good, just |
| (adjective) in a vertical position; not sloping | Synonyms: unsloped |
| uproarious | (adjective) marked by or causing boisterous merriment or convulsive laughter | Synonyms: hilarious, screaming |
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| (adjective) uncontrollably noisy | Synonyms: rackety, rip-roaring |
| upscale | (adjective) appropriate for people with good incomes | - |
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| upset | (adjective) thrown into a state of disarray or confusion | Synonyms: broken, confused, disordered |
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| (adjective) mildly physically distressed | - |
| (adjective) afflicted with or marked by anxious uneasiness or trouble or grief | Synonyms: disquieted, distressed, disturbed, worried |
| (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: overturned, upturned |
| (adjective) used of an unexpected defeat of a team favored to win | - |
| upsetting | (adjective) causing an emotional disturbance | Synonyms: disconcerting |
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| upstage | (adjective) of the back half of a stage | - |
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| (adjective) remote in manner | Synonyms: aloof, distant |
| upstair | (adjective) on or of upper floors of a building | Synonyms: upstairs |
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| upstairs | (adjective) on or of upper floors of a building | Synonyms: upstair |
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| upstanding | (adjective) meriting respect or esteem | Synonyms: solid |
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| upstart | (adjective) characteristic of someone who has risen economically or socially but lacks the social skills appropriate for this new position | Synonyms: nouveau-riche, parvenu, parvenue |
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| upstream | (adjective) in the direction against a stream's current | - |
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| uptight | (adjective) being in a tense state | Synonyms: edgy, high-strung, highly strung, jittery, jumpy, nervy, overstrung, restive |
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| uptown | (adjective) of or located in the upper part of a town | - |
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| upturned | (adjective) (used of noses) turned up at the end | Synonyms: retrousse, tip-tilted |
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| (adjective) having been turned so that the bottom is no longer the bottom | Synonyms: overturned, upset |
| upward | (adjective) extending or moving toward a higher place | Synonyms: up |
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| (adjective) directed up | - |
| upwind | (adjective) towards the side exposed to wind | Synonyms: weather |
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