Definition of "super-" []

• Above; over; upon: superimpose. (prefix)
• Superior in size, quality, number, or degree: superfine. (prefix)
• Exceeding a norm: supersaturate. (prefix)
• Excessive in degree or intensity: supersubtle. (prefix)
• Containing a specified ingredient in an unusually high proportion: superphosphate. (prefix)

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• ""If we were back to a super- majority vote, it's quite possible that the Republicans would have extracted an even more serious amount of cuts or would have extracted pension reform or regulatory relief," said Bruce Cain , a political-science professor at the University of California, Berkeley."
• "My super- talented mother made a Cinderella pumpkin coach as a cake for my seventh birthday."
• "In the flier for the show, Carol Willis, the museum's curator and director, writes that "to distinguish the rarified air of the super- from the merely very tall, the Museum has made the benchmark 380 meters/1,250 feet—the height of the Empire State Building—rather than the more frequently used measure of 300 meters.""