Adjective: senior
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more senior |
| Superlative | most senior |
Sample Sentences
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senior citizen
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senior member; senior counsel
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senior hockey
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It is unusual for the senior hand to leave even one of the five cards to which he is entitled. It indicated an unusually strong hand. [1923, Ernest Bramah [pseudonym; Ernest Brammah Smith], “(please specify the page)”, in The Eyes of Max Carrados, London: Grant Richards, →OCLC:]
Adjectives inflected like senior
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English senior, from Latin senior (“older”), comparative form of senex (“old”); see senate. Doublet of seigneur, seignior, senhor, señor, senyor, signore, sir, and sire. See: Latin Adjectives '
senior'.
Verbs referencing "senior"
Portuguese Adjectives
sénior.