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Another word for best

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Adjective

  1. Surpassing all others in quality

    See also:

    better

  2. Much more than half

    See also:

    big

    better

Noun

  1. The superlative or most preferable part of something

    Idioms:
    See also:

    better

  2. Friendly greetings

    See also:

    greeting

Verb

  1. To be greater or better than

    Idioms:
    See also:

    big

  2. To win a victory over, as in battle or a competition

    Idioms:
    See also:

    win

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Another word for best

Modifier

  1. Generally excellent

    Antonyms:

  2. Applied especially to things

    See also:

    excellent

  3. Applied especially to people

    See also:

    noble

Noun
Verb
  1. See also:

    surpass

    defeat

Idioms:

    all for the best

    2. as-best-one-can

    3. at-best

    4. at one's best

    5. get (or have) the best of

    6. make the best of

    7. with the best

© WEBSTER’S NEW WORLD® ROGET’S A-Z THESAURUS by Charlton Laird and the editors of Webster’s New World dictionaries. Copyright © 1999 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. All rights reserved.

Sentence Examples

  • Best keep her eyes on the trail for any more footless friends.

  • Betsy and Martha, now practically best friends, conspired together against the rest of us until they owned most of the board.

  • The best works of art are the expression of man's struggle to free himself from this condition, but the effect of our art is merely to make this low state comfortable and that higher state to be forgotten.

  • She is the best seamstress in Houston!

  • Yours is the second offer I've had this trip and I want to make sure I get the best deal.

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