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单词 surpassing
释义

surpassing

/səˈpɑːsɪŋ / /səˈpasɪŋ/
adjective dated or literary
Incomparable or outstanding: a picture of surpassing beauty...
  • Frequently incorrect, occasionally even inaccurate, he nevertheless stirs orchestras into producing sounds of surpassing beauty, using wildly unconventional hand movements that even he cannot reproduce when not conducting.
  • Many people know the story of Padmini, the queen of Chittaur, whose surpassing beauty led Alauddin Khilji, the Sultan of Delhi, to wage a ruthless war.
  • They will enter a hall of surpassing beauty, with walls of Douglas fir that flow as elegantly as the lines of a fine instrument, a space as soulful in its way as the cathedral's nave.

Synonyms

exceptional, extraordinary, remarkable, outstanding, striking, phenomenal, rare, great, supreme, sublime, pre-eminent, consummate, incomparable, inimitable, incredible, unrivalled, unparalleled, matchless, unmatched, unequalled, peerless, unsurpassed, superlative, beyond words, beyond description
informal fabulous, fantastic, stupendous, out of this world, terrific, tremendous, awesome, stellar
literary wondrous

Derivatives

surpassingly

adverb ...
  • The small pursed mouth was gracefully opened to shape surpassingly sweet words.
  • He was always cool - and not because he adapted his personality to meet the definitions of the era, but because he was surpassingly cool.
  • This could only be achieved by a surpassingly brilliant editor.

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