otherest
otherest is the superlative form of other.
Meaning of other
Adjective
other (not comparable)
- See other (determiner) below.
- Pick up the phone and find out who's on the other end.
- Synonyms:
- additional, another
- Second.
- I get paid every other week.
- Synonyms:
- alternate
- Alien.
- In Matthew's account, the law remains intact, as does virtually everything except that critical belief in Jesus as the Messiah (obviously no small thing), and this is not enough to make Matthew completely other from its Jewish origins.2010 April 20, anonymous author, “Letters”, in Christian Century, volume 127, number 8, page 6
- Synonyms:
- foreign
- Different.
- it is inherent, rather, in the revolutionary attempt of the West to externalize the idea of a source of meaning wholly other than what is embodied in human conventions and hierarchies.2001 Fall, Ralph C. Hancock, “The Modern Revolution and the Collapse of Moral Analogy: Tocqueville and Guizot.”, in Perspectives on Political Science, volume 30, number 4, page 213
- Synonyms:
- disparate, dissimilar, distinctive, distinguishable, diverse, different, differing, unalike, unlike
- Antonyms:
- same
- Left, as opposed to right.
- A diſtaffe in her other hand ſhe had, / Vpon the which ſhe litle ſpinnes, but ſpils, / And faynes to weaue falſe tales and leaſings bad, / To throw amongſt the good, which others had diſprad.1596, Edmund Spenser, “Book V, Canto XII”, in The Faerie Queene. […], part II (books IV–VI), London: […] [Richard Field] for William Ponsonby, →OCLC, stanza 36, page 351
Questions about otherest
- What is otherest the superlative form of?
- Otherest is the superlative form of other.
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