Usually means: Highest or lowest degree descriptors.
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We found 11 dictionaries that define the word superlatives:

General (10 matching dictionaries)
  1. superlatives: Merriam-Webster
  2. superlatives: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. superlatives: Collins English Dictionary
  4. superlatives: Vocabulary.com
  5. Superlatives, superlatives: Wordnik
  6. superlatives: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  7. superlatives: Wiktionary
  8. superlatives: Dictionary.com
  9. superlatives: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  10. Superlatives: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia

Business (1 matching dictionary)
  1. Superlatives: Legal dictionary

(Note: See superlative as well.)

Definitions from Wiktionary (superlative)

noun:  The extreme (e.g. highest, lowest, deepest, farthest, etc) extent or degree of something.
noun:  (grammar) The form of an adjective that expresses which of several items has the highest degree of the quality expressed by the adjective; in English, formed by appending "-est" to the end of the adjective (for some short adjectives only) or putting "most" before it.
noun:  (informal) An adjective used to praise something exceptional.
adjective:  Exceptionally good; of the highest quality; superb.
adjective:  (grammar) Of or relating to a superlative.
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