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first-rate
adjective as in of the highest quality
Strongest matches
Weak matches
- A number one
- A-1
- accomplished
- ace
- bang-up
- banner
- best
- best quality
- blue-ribbon
- capital
- champion
- choice
- choicest
- exemplary
- exquisite
- fine
- finest
- first-class
- great
- highest quality
- incomparable
- magnificent
- meritorious
- of the first water
- of the highest type
- peerless
- premium
- prime
- quality
- select
- skillful
- splendid
- sterling
- striking
- super
- superior
- superlative
- supreme
- terrific
- tiptop
- top
- top-drawer
- top-flight
- top-notch
- top-of-the-line
- world-class
Example Sentences
Newsday: “Thoroughly researched, written with intelligence, sympathy and grace, it is a model of first-rate literary biography.”
Yellen, many believe, is the perfect choice, a first-rate academic whose sense of timing is exquisite and nuanced.
You can have a first-rate mind, but if the neurology is skewed, the thinking will also be skewed.
Elementary is first-rate American television in what is being called the “procedural” tradition.
He has had chores, he knows how to cook, how to iron, how to be a first-rate gardening assistant, and much more.
However, I am bound to admit that it is a first-rate country for sport—also for killing Englishmen.
And then at last the Pupil if he possesses a first-rate cramming memory might answer questions on it.
I presume you know that Maria Theresa was a first-rate soldier; or, at least, she had the happy art of finding them.
We find it was a town hand, said Blathers, continuing his report; for the style of work is first-rate.
He frequented the Italian Opera, which was his sole opportunity of hearing a good orchestra, chorus, and first-rate soloists.
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From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.
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