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Pronunciation varies by accent · adjective
Characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved..
"[…] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel."
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; […]
Land, and a bettersome sort of room with a bed in it on the right.
Altogether I have a bettersome feeling.
Use bettersome when its meaning, tone and grammar fit the full sentence. A synonym is not always a direct replacement.
Bettersome means Characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved..
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The opposite depends on the specific sense.
"[…] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel."
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