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Etymology

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suppletive +‎ -ly

Adverb

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suppletively (comparative more suppletively, superlative most suppletively)

  1. 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: badbadderbaddest.