superlative degree

English

Noun

superlative degree

1. (grammar) The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing three or more entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the superlative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -est or the word most (e.g. biggest, most fully); the superlative of inferiority, by adding the word least (e.g. least big, least fully).

   Synonym: superlative

   Hypernym: degree of comparison

   Hyponyms: superlative of superiority, superlative of inferiority

   Coordinate terms: positive degree, comparative degree

Translations

degree of comparison

• Albanian: shkalla sipërore f
• Arabic: دَرَجَة فَائِقَة f (daraja fāʔiqa)
• Breton: derez-uhelañ (br) m
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 最高級 / 最高级 (zh) (zuìgāojí)

• Dutch: overtreffende trap (nl)
• Finnish: superlatiivi (fi)
• French: superlatif (fr) m
• German: Superlativ (de) m
• Greek: υπερθετικός βαθμός m (yperthetikós vathmós)
• Hungarian: felsőfok (hu)
• Icelandic: efsta stig (is) n
• Irish: sárchéim f
• Japanese: 最上級 (ja) (さいじょうきゅう, saijōkyū)
• Korean: 최상급(最上級) (ko) (choesanggeup)
• Persian: صفت برترین (fa) (sefat-e bartarin)
• Polish: stopień najwyższy (pl) m
• Portuguese: grau superlativo m
• Romanian: grad superlativ n, superlativ (ro) n
• Russian: превосхо́дная сте́пень (ru) f (prevosxódnaja stépenʹ), суперляти́в (ru) m (superljatív)
• Slovak: superlatív, tretí stupeň
• Slovene: preséžnik m
• Tagalog: pasukdol
• Vietnamese: cấp cao nhất
• Welsh: gradd eithaf f