beautifuller

English

Alternative forms

• beautifuler

Adjective

beautifuller

1. (poetic, else nonstandard) comparative form of beautiful: more beautiful
   • 1843, Thomas Carlyle, Paste and Present, page 15:

     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?

   • 1854, Gerald Massey, Poems and Ballads, page 82:

     They were three Spirits fresh from God's own hand,
     And beautifuller ne'er took mortal mould

   • 1885, Walter Geikie, Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's, page 54:

     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.