Beautifuller

Part of speech: adjective

Definitions

1. Having a greater degree of beauty than another person, thing or place being compared
2. Possessing more loveliness or attractiveness when set against something else in comparison
3. Showing a higher level of visual appeal, grace or charm than the item it is measured against

Etymology: "Beautifuller" is simply the comparative of "beautiful," formed by adding the comparative ending "-er" to the adjective, so its history is that of "beautiful" itself. The base word came into English in Middle English as "bewteful" or "beautefull," meaning attractive to the eye, and it was built from "beauty" plus the suffix "-ful," meaning full of or having a quality. That combination was an English construction on top of the noun "beauty," which in turn came through Anglo-Norman "biauté" from Latin roots. The most striking part of the story is what the adjective replaced. In this sense, "beautiful" largely displaced the Old English word "fæġer," which survives today as "fair." So the English speakers who first used "bewteful" were, in effect, pushing aside a native word that had meant the same thing for centuries.