head and shoulders above
Definition
› If someone or something is head and shoulders above other people or things, they are a lot better than them: There's no competition - they're head and shoulders above the rest.Informal words for goodGood, better and bestQuite good, or not very good
(Definition of head and shoulders above from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- A-OK adjective
- banging adjective
- be the bee's knees idiom
- be the business idiom
- bodacious adjective
- champion adjective, exclamation
- knock spots off sth idiom
- magic exclamation
- mega adjective
- neat adjective (GOOD)
- nifty adjective
- out of sight idiom
- plum adjective (GOOD)
- smashing adjective
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- splendiferous adjective
- steal the show/scene idiom
- stupendous adjective
- swell adjective
- swell adverb
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