Meanings
- not comparablePositioned immediately above or on top of something else; overlying.First known use 16th c.
Pemulis, Troeltsch, and Schacht's triple-room is subdorm B in the back north part of the second floor of West House and so superjacent to the Dining Hall […].
1996, David Foster Wallace, Infinite Jest […], Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Little, Brown and Company, →ISBN, page 171
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivelying immediately above or on something else
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Latinsuperjacēns
- Englishsuperjacent
From (the stem of) Latin superjacēns, present participle of superjacēre, from super- + jacēre (“to lie”).
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