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superordinate

NOUN
  1. one of greater rank or station or quality
  2. a word that is more generic than a given word
VERB
  1. place in a superior order or rank
    These two notions are superordinated to a third
ADJECTIVE
  1. of higher rank or status or value

How To Use superordinate In A Sentence

  • The fuel now is superordinated for the city's pollution.
  • Conflict between contending groups may be resolved, lessened, or contained through the use of ‘medical diplomacy’ or health oriented superordinate goals
  • It became my superordinate goal to read every word that London had written. A Rare Collection of Jack London's Nonfiction
  • 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. The Moral State of Marriage
  • However, what about children abuse - preventing such abuse seems to require laws superordinate to the property laws. EconLog Book Club: For a New Liberty, Chapter 12, Bryan Caplan | EconLog | Library of Economics and Liberty
  • We shall therefore say that knife, fork and spoon are quasi-hyponyms of cutlery, and cutlery is a quasi-superordinate.
  • In terms of language, sexism refers to a bias through which patterns and references of male usage are taken to be normative, superordinate, and positive and those of women are taken to be deviant, subordinate, and negative.
  • The case revolved on an inaccurate affidavit used to get a search warrant, the evidence obtained as a result of which was, of course, "legally contaminated" and so, the case should not have been pressed using that evidence, asserted Deputy District Attorney Ceballos in a memorandum to his superordinates in the office. Garcetti v. Ceballos; Alito Kills Whistleblowing
  • If G1 is superordinate to G2, then G1's differentiae will be a subset of G2's differentiae. Archive 2009-04-01
  • In this context, Gottwald spares no effort to ensure its own software can be easily integrated in superordinate TOS software.
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