act superior

1. 1.

   act like the master of

   “He is lording it over the students”

   Synonymslord it overqueen it overput on airs

   Broaderact

Questions about act superior

What does act superior mean?

act superior means "act like the master of".

What is another word for act superior?

Close synonyms include lord it over, queen it over, put on airs. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

Is act superior a common word?

act superior is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.