best
What is the Definition of best?
Noun:
- the supreme effort one can make
- the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others
- Canadian physiologist (born in the United States)
- 1899-1978
Verb:
- get the better of
Adjective:
- (superlative of `good')
- (comparative and superlative of `well')
- having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified
- having the normally expected amount
- morally admirable
- deserving of esteem and respect
- promoting or enhancing well-being
- agreeable or pleasing
- of moral excellence
- having or showing knowledge and skill and aptitude
- thorough
- with or in a close or intimate relationship
- financially safe
- most suitable or right for a particular purpose
- resulting favorably
- exerting force or influence
- or in force
- capable of pleasing
- appealing to the mind
- in excellent physical condition
- tending to promote physical well-being; beneficial to health
- not forged
- not left to spoil
- generally admired
- in good health especially after having suffered illness or injury
- resulting favorably
- wise or advantageous and hence advisable
Adverb:
- in a most excellent way or manner
- it would be sensible
- from a position of superiority or authority
- (often used as a combining form)
- `good' is a nonstandard dialectal variant for `well'
- thoroughly or completely; fully; often used as a combining form
- indicating high probability; in all likelihood
- (used for emphasis or as an intensifier)
- to a suitable or appropriate extent or degree
- favorably; with approval
- to a great extent or degree
- or substantially
- with great or especially intimate knowledge
- with prudence or propriety
- with skill or in a pleasing manner
- in a manner affording benefit or advantage
- in financial comfort
- without unusual distress or resentment; with good humor
How can I use best in a sentence?
Oh, you wait, it is the best game in the world — And he was off, explaining all about the four balls and the positions of the seven players, describing famous games he would been to with his brothers and the broomstick he would like to get if he had the money.
Nobody in my family's magic at all, it was ever such a surprise when I got my letter, but I was ever so pleased, of course, I mean, it is the very best school of witchcraft there is, I have heard — I have learned all our course books by heart, of course, I just hope it will be enough — I am Hermione Granger, by the way, who are you?
No one ever lived after he decided ter kill 'em, no one except you, an' he would killed some o' the best witches an' wizards of the age — the McKinnons, the Bones, the Prewetts — an' you was only a baby, an' you lived.
Yes First — to Mr. Ronald Weasley Ron went purple in the face; he looked like a radish with a bad sunburn. for the best-played game of chess Hogwarts has seen in many years, I award Gryffindor house fifty points.
And the school bellowed: Hogwarts, Hogwarts, Hoggy Warty Hogwarts, Teach us something please, Whether we be old and bald Or young with scabby knees, Our heads could do with filling With some interesting stuff, For now they are bare and full of air, Dead flies and bits of fluff, So teach us things worth knowing, Bring back what we have forgot, just do your best, we will do the rest, And learn until our brains all rot.
Other meanings of best (synonyms, cognates).
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