supreme Meaning, Definition & Usage

  1. adjective satellite final or last in your life or progress
    • the supreme sacrifice
    • the supreme judgment
  2. adjective satellite greatest in status or authority or power
    sovereign.
    • a supreme tribunal
  3. adjective satellite highest in excellence or achievement
    • supreme among musicians
    • a supreme endxxeavor
    • supreme courage
  4. adjective satellite greatest or maximal in degree; extreme
    • supreme folly

WordNet

Su*preme" adjective
Etymology
L. supremus, superlative of superus that is above, upper, fr. super above: cf. F. suprême. See Super-, and cf. Sum.
Definitions
  1. Highest in authority; holding the highest place in authority, government, or power.
    He that is the supreme King of kings. Shak.
  2. Highest; greatest; most excellent or most extreme; utmost; greatist possible (sometimes in a bad sense); as, supreme love; supreme glory; supreme magnanimity; supreme folly.
    Each would be supreme within its own sphere, and those spheres could not but clash. De Quincey.
  3. (Bot.) Situated at the highest part or point.

Webster 1913