suppletively
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]suppletive + -ly
Adverb
[edit]suppletively (comparative more suppletively, superlative most suppletively)
- In a suppletive way.
- 2012, Jonathan David Bobaljik, Universals in Comparative Morphology, page 195:
- And as noted in chapter 2, in exactly this sense the adjective bad compares regularly, not suppletively: bad – badder – baddest.