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best-brought-up

best-brought-up is the superlative form of well-brought-up.

Meaning of well-brought-up

Adjective

well-brought-up (comparative better-brought-up or more well-brought-up, superlative best-brought-up or most well-brought-up)

  1. Having been taught during childhood to exhibit good manners and pleasant behaviour.
    • He strikes me as a very well-brought-up young man.

Questions about best-brought-up

What is best-brought-up the superlative form of?
Best-brought-up is the superlative form of well-brought-up.

Words near best-brought-up in the dictionary

  1. best-aimed
  2. best-appointed
  3. best-before date
  4. best-before dates
  5. best-behaved
  6. best-brought-up
  7. best-built
  8. best-by date
  9. best-by dates
  10. best-case
  11. best-case scenario

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Adapted from Wiktionary: best-brought-up (page history and authors); well-brought-up (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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