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bettersome

bettersome adjective: characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved.

Adjective

bettersome (comparative more bettersome, superlative most bettersome)

  1. Characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved.
    • "[…] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel."1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase
    • We then paced up and down the High-street, viewing the shops becoming gradually shutterless—the milkman paying his early call—and pretty, rosy-cheeked country lasses, with their pails and brooms, tidying up the doorways of the more bettersome abodes; […]1857, Matthias Cathrow Turner, A saunter through Surrey, page 169

Forms of bettersome

comparativemore bettersome
superlativemost bettersome

Origin of bettersome

From better + -some.

Questions about bettersome

What does bettersome mean?
Bettersome means characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved.
What part of speech is bettersome?
Bettersome is an adjective.

Words near bettersome in the dictionary

  1. bettern't
  2. betterness
  3. betternesses
  4. betters
  5. bettership
  6. bettersome
  7. Betterton
  8. bettertonite
  9. Bettertons
  10. Bettes
  11. Betteses

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