mejor
Spanish edit
Etymology edit
Inherited from Latin melior, meliōrem (whence English ameliorate), from Proto-Indo-European *mélyōs, from *mel- (“strong, big”). Cognate with Portuguese melhor, Galician mellor, Catalan millor, French meilleur, Italian migliore.
Pronunciation edit
Adjective edit
mejor m or f (masculine and feminine plural mejores)
- better
- better off
- improved
- (definite) best
- (definite) top, highest, finest (e.g. highest quality, highest bidder, top of one's class, in top form, finest food and wine, finest hotel, etc.)
Usage notes edit
- If trying to say "any better" in Spanish, "any" would go untranslated. So if you wanted to say "It couldn't be any better", you'd say "No podría ser mejor."
Antonyms edit
Adverb edit
mejor
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Further reading edit
- “mejor”, in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014
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