Synonyms for Surpassing

Synonyms for "surpassing" (146 found)

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Closest matches (30)

a cut aboveabove absolute ahead arrant ascendant best better capping champion choice chosen classical complete consummate crass decided definitive distinguished dominant

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downright eclipsing egregious elect elite eminent enormous

Adjective(1 words)

awesome

Noun(2 words)

beat besting

Strong matches (43)

especial exceeding excellent excelling excessive extraordinary finer flagrantfor the bestglaring great greater greatest gross handpicked higherin ascendancyin the ascendantincomparable intolerable

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major marked matchlessof choiceone up onoptimal optimumout-and-out

Noun(12 words)

exceed exceedance exceeding excel exceptional leapfrogs outclassing outdistancing outdo outdoing outgrowing outperform

Adjective(3 words)

exceeding exceptional olympian

Related words (73)

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More general

9 entries

action attributedegree adjectiveexceed exceeding processqualitative descriptorquality state

More specific

16 entries

exceedance exceptionalexceptional meritoutdo outperform outperforming outstanding outstrippersonal bestpreeminence superioritytop scoreunmatched unparalleledunparalleled qualityworld record

Collocations

15 entries

achievement benchmark outperformance performance record standardssurpassing expectationssurpassing growthsurpassing limitssurpassing performancesurpassing qualitysurpassing recordsurpassing recordssurpassing resultssurpassing standards

Inflections

5 entries

more surpassingmost surpassingsurpassed surpasses surpassings

Derivations

6 entries

surpass surpassability surpassable surpasser surpassingly unsurpassed

similar

2 entries

extraordinary superior

Sample sentences

12 total sentences available.

Tatoeba + Wiktionary

Surpassing labour intensive, capital intensive, the age has shifted greatly to knowledge intensive.

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I am distressed for you, my brother Jonathan; you have been very pleasant to me. Your love to me was wonderful, surpassing the love of a woman.

Source: tatoeba (4079477)

Japan is surpassing China in economic power.

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"Fourteen nymphs are in my service, surpassing in comeliness, of whom Deiopea, the most beautiful, I will unite in steadfast marriage to you and declare her your own; that in exchange for such benefits she may dwell with you all her years, and make you the father of beautiful offspring."

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Surpassing