superb

Etymology

Learned borrowing from Latin superbus.

adj

  1. First-rate; of the highest quality; exceptionally good.
    This champagne is superb.
  2. Grand; magnificent; august; stately.
    a superb edifice;  a superb colonnade
  3. (dated) Haughty.
    A remark which Isabella received with a superb curl of the lip, but at the same time, and to her brother's infinite relief, she walked away. 1858, Julia Kavanagh, Adèle, a Tale: Volume 2, page 235

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