superelite
/suːpəɹɪˈliːt/
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
12
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
8
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Being above and beyond elite.
Example Sentences
- "I can summarize my own position very simply: That, if they are bonus payments for hazardous duty and to the degree that they are, they should be equalized rather than confined to a special group. To the degree which they are bonus payments for attracting better qualified personnel, I am very dubious about using money incentives to build up an elite or a superelite or a super-superelite."
- "This meant that high-school graduates were in effect an elite, and since only a minority of them went on to the universities, university graduates were a superelite."
- "This all-out goal is combined with an apparent readiness to launch nuclear aggression whenever its calculations “assure” the survival of the few thousand superelite of the United States."
- "There are also two superelite champagnes, which are produced in a very limited quantity."
- "For an example of this need: when members of the superelite Business Council held their fall meeting at Hot Springs, Virginia, they predicted that toward the end of 1967 there would be a sharp slowdown of the economy; indeed, a group of economists headed by Walter Hoadley, senior vice-president of the Bank of America, forecast virtually a halt in economic growth in the butt months of 1967."
- "Three had their own practices, and two had become public figures. One was salaried but had attained the superelite position of partnership in a Wall Street Firm."
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *úp Proto-Indo-European *-er Proto-Indo-European *upér Proto-Italic *super Latin super Latin super-lbor. English super- English elite English superelite From super- + elite.
Inflected Forms
superelites (plural)
super-elite (alternative)
more superelite (comparative)
most superelite (superlative)