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Words, grammatical forms and meanings linked to the ontology.

suppletively en · ADV

Etymology

From suppletive + -ly.

Meanings

  1. In a suppletive way.
    • And as noted in chapter 2, in exactly this sense the adjective bad compares regularly, not suppletively: bad – badder – baddest. 2012, Jonathan David Bobaljik, Universals in Comparative Morphology, page 195:

Forms

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most suppletively Degree=Sup lexicographic
more suppletively Degree=Cmp lexicographic