Cranial vs. Superior — What's the Difference?

Of or relating to the skull or cranium.

Higher in rank, status, or quality

(anatomy) Of or relating to the cranium, or to the skull.

Having or showing an overly high opinion of oneself; conceited

(anatomy) cephalic.

(of a letter, figure, or symbol) written or printed above the line.

Of or pertaining to the cranium.

Further above or out; higher in position.

Of or relating to the cranium which encloses the brain;

A person superior to another in rank or status, especially a colleague in a higher position

A superior letter, figure, or symbol.

Higher than another in rank, station, or authority

Of a higher nature or kind.

Of great value or excellence; extraordinary.

Greater in number or amount than another

Presuming to be or suggesting that one is morally or socially better than others; disdainful or supercilious.

Above being affected or influenced; indifferent or immune

Located higher than another; upper.

(Botany) Inserted or situated above the perianth. Used of an ovary.

(Printing) Set above the main line of type.

(Logic) Of wider or more comprehensive application; generic. Used of a term or proposition.

One that surpasses another in rank or quality.

(Ecclesiastical) The head of a religious community, such as a monastery, abbey, or convent.

(Printing) A superior character, as the number 2 in x2.

Higher in rank, status, or quality.

Of high standard or quality.

Greater in size or power.

Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by.

Greater or better than average.

Courageously or serenely indifferent (as to something painful or disheartening).

(typography) Printed in superscript.

Located above or out; higher in position.

Located above or higher, a direction that in humans corresponds to cephalad.

(botany) of a calyx Above the ovary; said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part.

(botany) of an ovary Above and free from the other floral organs.

(botany) Belonging to the part of an axillary flower which is toward the main stem.

(botany) of the radicle Pointing toward the apex of the fruit.

(taxonomy) More comprehensive.

Affecting or assuming an air of superiority.

(astronomy) of a planet Closer to the Earth than to the Sun.

A person of higher rank or quality, especially a colleague in a higher position.

The senior person in a monastic community.

The head of certain religious institutions and colleges.

(printing) A superior letter, figure, or symbol.

One who has made an original grant of heritable property to a tenant or vassal, on condition of a certain annual payment (feu duty) or of the performance of certain services.

More elevated in place or position; higher; upper; as, the superior limb of the sun; the superior part of an image.

Higher in rank or office; more exalted in dignity; as, a superior officer; a superior degree of nobility.

Higher or greater in excellence; surpassing others in the greatness, or value of any quality; greater in quality or degree; as, a man of superior merit; or of superior bravery.

Beyond the power or influence of; too great or firm to be subdued or affected by; - with to.

More comprehensive; as a term in classification; as, a genus is superior to a species.

Above the ovary; - said of parts of the flower which, although normally below the ovary, adhere to it, and so appear to originate from its upper part; also of an ovary when the other floral organs are plainly below it in position, and free from it.

One who is above, or surpasses, another in rank, station, office, age, ability, or merit; one who surpasses in what is desirable; as, Addison has no superior as a writer of pure English.

The head of a monastery, convent, abbey, or the like.

One of greater rank or station or quality

The head of a religious community

A combatant who is able to defeat rivals

The largest freshwater lake in the world; the deepest of the Great Lakes

A town in northwest Wisconsin on Lake Superior across from Duluth

A character or symbol set or printed or written above and immediately to one side of another character

Of high or superior quality or performance;

Of or characteristic of high rank or importance;

(sometimes followed by `to') not subject to or influenced by;

Written or printed above and to one side of another character

Having an orbit farther from the sun than the Earth's orbit;

Having a higher rank;

(often followed by `to') above being affected or influenced by;