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betterest

betterest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of better.

Meaning of better

Verb (1)

better

  1. (auxiliary, colloquial, modal) Had better.
    • It's getting late. You better get on home.

Verb (2)

better (third-person singular simple present betters, present participle bettering, simple past and past participle bettered)

  1. (transitive) To improve.
    • attempts to better the lot of the refugees
  2. (intransitive) To become better; to improve.
  3. (transitive) To surpass in excellence; to exceed; to excel; to improve on.
    • He summed the whole thing up in a way that I couldn't possibly better.
    Synonyms:
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  4. (transitive) To give advantage to; to support; to advance the interest of.
    • Weapons more violent, when next we meet, / May serve to better us and worse our foes.1667, John Milton, “Book VI”, in Paradise Lost. […], London: […] [Samuel Simmons], and are to be sold by Peter Parker […]; [a]nd by Robert Boulter […]; [a]nd Matthias Walker, […], →OCLC; republished...

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Origin of betterest

better + -est

Questions about betterest

What is betterest the second-person singular simple present indicative of?
Betterest is the second-person singular simple present indicative of better.

Words near betterest in the dictionary

  1. betterable
  2. bettered
  3. betterer
  4. bettererer
  5. betterers
  6. betterest
  7. bettereth
  8. betterfied
  9. betterfies
  10. betterfy
  11. betterfying

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Adapted from Wiktionary: betterest (page history and authors); better (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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