bettersome
Word Rarity
Very rare
Frequency: Zipf frequency 0.00 in modern English
14
Scrabble Score
10
Letters
3
Syllables
7
Unique Chars
Meaning
adj
Characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved.
Example Sentences
- ""[…] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel.""
- "We then paced up and down the High-street, viewing the shops becoming gradually shutterless—the milkman paying his early call—and pretty, rosy-cheeked country lasses, with their pails and brooms, tidying up the doorways of the more bettersome abodes; […]"
- "Land, and a bettersome sort of room with a bed in it on the right."
- "Altogether I have a bettersome feeling."
Etymology
Etymology tree English better Proto-Indo-European *sem- Proto-Indo-European *-os Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *-ós Proto-Indo-European *somHós Proto-Germanic *samaz Proto-Germanic *-samaz Proto-West Germanic *-sam Old English -sum Middle English -som English -some English bettersome From better + -some.
Inflected Forms
more bettersome (comparative)
most bettersome (superlative)