of the highest kind, quality, or order; surpassing all else or others; supreme; extreme: superlative wisdom.
2.
Grammar. of, pertaining to, or noting the highest degree of the comparison of adjectives and adverbs, as smallest, best, and most carefully, the superlative forms of small, good, and carefully.Compare comparative(def. 4), positive(def. 20).
3.
being more than is proper or normal; exaggerated in language or style.
–noun
4.
a superlative person or thing.
5.
the utmost degree; acme.
6.
Grammar.
a.
the superlative degree.
b.
a form in the superlative.
Origin: 1350–1400; ME < LL superlātīvus, equiv. to L superlāt(us) hyperbolical (super-super-+ -lātus, suppletive ptp. of ferre to bear1) + -īvus-ive; r. ME superlatif < OF < LL, as above
Of the highest order, quality, or degree; surpassing or superior to all others.
Excessive or exaggerated.
Grammar Of, relating to, or being the extreme degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb, as in best or brightest.
n.
Something of the highest possible excellence.
The highest degree; the acme.
Grammar
The superlative degree.
An adjective or adverb expressing the superlative degree, as in brightest, the superlative of the adjective bright, or most brightly, the superlative of the adverb brightly.
[Middle English superlatif, from Old French, from Late Latin superlātīvus, from Latin superlātus, past participle of superferre, to carry over a person or thing, exaggerate : super-, super- + lātus, past participle of ferre, to carry; see telə- in Indo-European roots.] su·per'la·tive·ly adv.
[suh-pur-luh-tiv, soo-] 
