n. the supreme effort one can make; "they did their best"

n. the person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others; "he could beat the best of them"

v. get the better of; "the goal was to best the competition"

adv. "You'd best stay at home"

adv. "He played best after a couple of martinis"

adj. (superlative of `good') having the most positive qualities; "the best film of the year"; "the best solution"; "the best time for planting"; "wore his best suit"

adj. characterized by or aspiring to impracticable perfection; "the dim utopian future"; "utopian idealists"; "recognized the utopian nature of his hopes"

v. distinguish oneself; "She excelled in math"

v. go beyond; "She exceeded our expectations"; "She topped her performance of last year"

v. be equal to in quality or ability; "Nothing can rival cotton for durability"; "Your performance doesn't even touch that of your colleagues"; "Her persistence and ambition only matches that of her parents"

v. be the rival of, be in competition with; "we are rivaling for first place in the race"

adj. of heaven or the spirit; "celestial peace"; "ethereal melodies"; "the supernal happiness of a quiet death"

adj. worthy of adoration or reverence

adj. having desirable or positive qualities especially those suitable for a thing specified; "good news from the hospital"; "a good report card"; "when she was good she was very very good"; "a good knife is one good for cutting"; "this stump will make a good picnic table"; "a good check"; "a good joke"; "a good exterior paint"; "a good secretary"; "a good dress for the office"

adj. such that comparison is impossible; unsuitable for comparison or lacking features that can be compared; "an incomparable week of rest and pleasure"; "the computer proceeds with its incomparable logic and efficiency"; "this report is incomparable with the earlier ones because of different breakdowns of the data"

adj. of high or superior quality or performance; "superior wisdom derived from experience"; "superior math students"

adj. situated at the top or highest position; "the top shelf"

adj. enjoying or showing or marked by joy or pleasure or good fortune; "a happy smile"; "spent many happy days on the beach"; "a happy marriage"

adj. being complete of its kind and without defect or blemish; "a perfect circle"; "a perfect reproduction"; "perfect happiness"; "perfect manners"; "a perfect specimen"; "a perfect day"

n. the weakest effort or poorest achievement one is capable of; "it was the worst he had ever done on a test"

adj. (superlative of `bad') most wanting in quality or value or condition; "the worst player on the team"; "the worst weather of the year"

adj. as bad as can be; characterized by human misery; "AIDS is one of the dystopian harbingers of the global villages"- Susan Sontag