Definition for Superincumbent:

• Lying above.

Synonyms for Superincumbent:

• adj.

  •all (adjective)
  • superincumbent.
  •burdensome (adjective)
  • heavy,
  • taxing,
  • exacting,
  • disturbing,
  • difficult,
  • wearing,
  • demanding,
  • tough,
  • Irksome,
  • wearying,
  • trying,
  • crushing,
  • onerous.
  •exigent (adjective)
  • harsh,
  • grievous,
  • stringent,
  • hard,
  • severe,
  • strict,
  • rigorous,
  • arduous,
  • stiff.
  •superior (adjective)
  • major,
  • grander,
  • capital,
  • a cut above,
  • exceeding,
  • preferable,
  • choice,
  • prevailing,
  • over,
  • first-string,
  • first-class,
  • good,
  • senior,
  • high-class,
  • above,
  • dandy,
  • exclusive,
  • unrivalled,
  • distinguished,
  • preferred,
  • more skillful,
  • firstclass,
  • surpassing,
  • superhuman,
  • remarkable,
  • predominant,
  • exceptional,
  • good quality,
  • of higher rank,
  • deluxe,
  • famous,
  • paramount,
  • more advanced,
  • expert,
  • noteworthy,
  • admirable,
  • five-star,
  • first-rate,
  • high-caliber,
  • finer,
  • fine,
  • primary,
  • overlying,
  • first class,
  • premium.
  •weighty (adjective)
  • worrying,
  • worrisome.

• n.

  •superincumbent (noun)
  • superjacent.

• Other synonyms:

  •adj.
  • burdensome,
  • depressive,
  • exigent,
  • head ache,
  • oppressive,
  • superior,
  • weighty,
  • Carking,
  • ironhanded,
  • rough going.

Antonyms for Superincumbent:

• adj.

  • burdensome
    Relieving, Unburdensome, helping, trivial, easy, calm, helpful, Aiding.
  • exigent
    ordinary, usual, facile, unpressured.
  • oppressive
    kind, nice, temperate, cool, gentle, mild.
  • superior
    lower, poor, normal, unremarkable, below, humble, detestable, unimportant, bad, secondary, inferior, low-class, minor, meek.
  • weighty
    small, thin, unsubstantial, inconsequential, light, solvable.
  • Other antonyms:
    subjacent.

Superincumbent Sentence Examples:

• These poor creatures are pressed down, and squeezed out into what they are, under the superincumbent weight of an enormous leisure class.

• Some fifty or sixty years ago La Roche Corbon was " a village sculptured up the broken face of the rocks, with considerable skill, and what with creeping vines, snatches of hanging gardens, an attempt here and there at a division of tenements, by way of slight partitions cut from the surface, wreaths of blue smoke issuing out of apertures and curling up the front, and the old feudal tower, called Lanterne de la Roche Corbon, crowning the summit, the superincumbent pinnacle of excavated rock on which it stands looking as if it were ready to fall and crush the whole population beneath, this lithographed village has altogether a curiously picturesque look."