Beautifuller vs Beautifulest - What's the difference?
beautifuller | beautifulest |
(obsolete) (beautiful)
* 1843 : Paste and Present (page 15)
* 1854 -- Gerald Massey -- Poems and Ballads (page 82)
* 1885 -- Walter Geikie --- ''Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's (page 54)
(dated) Most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
* 1857 , Benjamin Franklin Tefft, The shoulder-knot; or, Sketches of the three-fold life of man: A story of the seventeenth century , Harper &d Brothers, p. 175-6:
* 1922 , Charles N. Lurie, How to say it: helpful hints on English , G.P. Putnam's sons, p. 23:
* 1970 , Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm and Paul Dennis Sporer, Half a Century , Anza Publishing, p. 34:
As adjectives the difference between beautifuller and beautifulest
is that beautifuller is (obsolete) (beautiful) while beautifulest is (dated) most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.beautifuller
English
Adjective
(head)- Many men eat finer cookery, drink dearer liquors [...] but in the heart of them, if we go out of the dyspeptic stomach, what increase of blessedness is there? Are they better, beautifuller , stronger, braver?
- They were three Spirits fresh from God's own hand,
- And beautifuller ne'er took mortal mould
- I've travell'd the world all over
- And many a place beside
- And I never did see a beautifuller city
- Than that on the banks of the navigatable river, the Clyde.
beautifulest
English
Adjective
(-)- ...and thy dear Baby Charles, as chance had ordered, had a fair sight of the beautifulest of princesses, Henrietta Maria, sister to the king...
- "I saw the beautifulest dress displayed in the window; the color was one of the delicatest blues I ever saw."
- They were the beautifulest boys I ever laid eyes on, and uncle sot great store by them.