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The optimum condition or quality: look your best. She was at her best in the freestyle competition.
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The supreme effort one can make: doing our best.
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The best state or part.
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One that is best.
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idiom
At best Interpreted most favorably; at the most: no more than 40 people at best in attendance.
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At best Under the most favorable conditions: has a top speed of 20 miles per hour at best.
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For the best With an ultimately positive or preferable result.
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Get To outdo or outwit; defeat: My opponent got the best of me in the debate.
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Make the best of Accept (a bad situation) in as good a light as possible.
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adjective
Greatest; most: He spoke for the best part of an hour.
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Most highly skilled: the best doctor in town.
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Most satisfactory, suitable, or useful; most desirable: the best solution; the best time for planting.
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Surpassing all others in excellence, achievement, or quality; most excellent: the best performer; the best grade of ore.
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Excelling all others.
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adverb
In a most excellent way; most creditably or advantageously.
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To the greatest degree or extent; most: "He was certainly the best hated man in the ship” ( W. Somerset Maugham).
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In the best way to greatest advantage.
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To the highest degree; most (used with verbs suggesting a desirable action or state or a successful outcome):.
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verb
To get the better of.
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Outwit or get the better of (someone):.
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