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Comparison is a feature in the morphology or syntax of some languages whereby adjectives and adverbs are rendered in an inflected or periphrastic way to indicate a comparative degree, property, quality, or quantity of a corresponding word, phrase, or clause.
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Nearly all irregular comparative adjectives in English can take on adverbial form and never use the -ly. Some examples are good, bad, little, much, and far – and their comparative forms (e.g. better and best). My best number was the one I'd practiced least. Which one hurt more? Steel and coal companies were the ones worst affected by tariffs.
The adjectives good and bad have the irregular forms better, best and worse, worst; also far becomes farther, farthest or further, furthest. The adjective old (for which the regular older and oldest are usual) also has the irregular forms elder and eldest , these generally being restricted to use in comparing siblings and in certain independent ...
If an adjective has two comparative markers, it is known as a double comparative (e.g. more louder, worser). The use of double comparatives is generally associated with Appalachian English and African American Vernacular English, though they were common in Early Modern English and were used by Shakespeare. [9] [10]
Other types of irregular inflected form include irregular plural nouns, such as the English mice, children and women (see English plural) and the French yeux (the plural of œil, "eye"); and irregular comparative and superlative forms of adjectives or adverbs, such as the English better and best (which correspond to the positive form good or well).
Adjectives Nouns Inflection: comparative (-er), superlative (-est) plural (-s) Typical function of the related phrases: pre-head modifier of noun, predicative complement subject, object, predicative complement Typical pre-head modifier: adverb phrase adjective phrase Occurrence with determinatives: do not head phrases containing determinatives
When I think of "irregular adjectives", I think of adjectives that inflect irregularly, (such as good-better-best), not of adjectives with a different etymology from a noun with a related meaning (collateral adjectives). I therefore think that this page should be titled List of collateral English adjectives, whether here or at Wiktionary.