Best (third-person singular simple present bests, present participle besting, simple past and past participle bested) Worst – (superlative of `bad’) most wanting in quality or value or condition; « the worst player on the team »; « the worst weather of the year » Finest, leading, top, chief, supreme, principal, first, foremost, superlative, pre-eminent, unsurpassed, most KSI Games accomplished, most skilful, most excellent He was the best player in the world for most of the 1950s. Mr. Hoser beat him to the punch, and this provoked the bested professional to write an article complaining that amateur herpetologists took shortcuts. But the third, about a Latino World War II pilot who bests a Yautja in a deadly flight contest, underscores ingenuity as being superior to any weapon or combat skill. Adj superlative → meilleur(e)He’s the best player in the team → Il est le meilleur joueur de l’équipe.the best thing to do is to go …
Tech shares regained some ground this past week, with the Nasdaq besting the Dow industrials. The 21-year-old now has the best figures in the format, besting the previous record held by Bhutan’s Sonam Yeshey, who took eight wickets for seven runs against Myanmar in a men’s T20 international in 2025. Among the company’s business segments, second-quarter sales for aeronautics, which includes the F-35 fighter jet, rose 9.3% to $8.11 billion, besting the FactSet consensus of $7.61 billion. The Cursed Toads—Spares whom she’d sympathized with, had tried to learn about, who she thought shared a common fate—had tricked and bested them.
Michael B. Jordan and Jessie Buckley won top acting prizes; “One Battle After Another” bests “Sinners” for Oscars gold. “The people who have the power to rip children from their families believe that it’s in a child’s best interest to have a brainrot device,” these moments suggest with a wink. Best (comparative (nonstandard, humorous) bester, superlative (nonstandard, humorous) bestest) Well1 /wɛl/USA pronunciation adv., adj., comparative bet•ter, superlative best, interj. Best /bɛst/USA pronunciation adj., adv., superlative form of well.