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outermore

outermore is the comparative form of outer.

Meaning of outer

Adjective

outer (comparative (rare) outermore, superlative outermost or outmost)

  1. Outside; external.
  2. Farther from the centre of the inside.
    • Nanny Broome was looking up at the outer wall. Just under the ceiling there were three lunette windows, heavily barred and blacked out in the normal way by centuries of grime. Their bases were on a level with the pavement outside, a narrow way which was several feet lower than the road behind the...1963, Margery Allingham, chapter 14, in The China Governess: A Mystery, London: Chatto & Windus, →OCLC

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Origin of outermore

From Middle English uttermore, outermere, ottermore, uttermor, equivalent to outer + -more. Doublet of uttermore.

Questions about outermore

What is outermore the comparative form of?
Outermore is the comparative form of outer.

Words near outermore in the dictionary

  1. outergarment
  2. outergarments
  3. outering
  4. outerings
  5. outerly
  6. outermore
  7. outermost
  8. outermosts
  9. outerness
  10. outerplanar
  11. outerplanarity

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Adapted from Wiktionary: outermore (page history and authors); outer (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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