bettersome

English

Etymology

From better +‎ -some.

Adjective

bettersome (comparative more bettersome, superlative most bettersome)

1. Characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved.
   • 1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase:

     " […] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel."

   • 1857, Matthias Cathrow Turner, A saunter through Surrey, page 169:

     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; […]

   • 1859, James Hamilton, Memoirs of the Life of James Wilson, page 245:

     Land, and a bettersome sort of room with a bed in it on the right.

   • 1902, Alexander Grant, Physician and Friend:

     Altogether I have a bettersome feeling.