surpassing adj

1 exceeding or surpassing usual limits especially in excellence [syn: transcendent]

2 far beyond what is usual in magnitude or degree; "a night of exceeding darkness"; "an exceptional memory"; "olympian efforts to save the city from bankruptcy"; "the young Mozart's prodigious talents" [syn: exceeding, exceptional, olympian, prodigious]

English

Verb

surpassing

1. present participle of surpass

a cut above, above, absolute, ahead, arrant, ascendant, best, better, capping, champion, choice, chosen, classical, complete, consummate, crass, decided, definitive, distinguished, downright, eclipsing, egregious, elect, elite, eminent, enormous, exceeding, excellent, excelling, excessive, extraordinary, finer, flagrant, for the best, glaring, great, greater, greatest, gross, handpicked, higher, in ascendancy, in the ascendant, incomparable, intolerable, major, marked, matchless, of choice, one up on, optimal, optimum, out-and-out, outright, outstanding, over, paramount, peerless, perfect, picked, positive, precious, preeminent, prime, prize, profound, pronounced, proper, quintessential, rank, rare, regular, rivaling, select, shattering, shocking, stark, stark-staring, super, superior, superlative, supreme, the veriest, thorough, thoroughgoing, topping, total, towering, transcendent, transcendental, transcending, ultimate, unbearable, unconscionable, undeniable, unequivocal, unmatchable, unmatched, unmitigated, unparalleled, unqualified, unrelieved, unspoiled, unsurpassable, unsurpassed, upper, utter, very best