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mildlier

mildlier is the comparative form of mildly.

Meaning of mildly

Adverb

mildly (comparative mildlier or more mildly, superlative mildliest or most mildly)

  1. In a mild manner.
    • Long before you see the lean, handsome heads peering mildly over the half-doors of the loose boxes, you know that East Ilsley's business is training racehorses.1980, AA Book of British Villages, Drive Publications Ltd, page 164
  2. To a mild degree; slightly.
    • a mildly amusing joke

Questions about mildlier

What is mildlier the comparative form of?
Mildlier is the comparative form of mildly.

Words near mildlier in the dictionary

  1. mildewproofs
  2. mildews
  3. mildewy
  4. mildheartedness
  5. mildish
  6. mildlier
  7. mildliest
  8. mildly
  9. Mildmay
  10. Mildmays
  11. mildness

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