IRREGULAR COMPARISON OF ADJECTIVES Positive Comparative Superlative bon us, -a, -um , good mel ior , mel ius , better opt imus, -a, -um , best mal us, -a, -um , bad pe ior , pe ius , worse pess imus, -a, -um , worst magn us, -a, -um , great ma ior , ma ius , greater max imus, -a, -um , greatest mult us, -a, -um , much ——, plūs, more plūr imus, -a, -um , most parv us, -a, -um , small min or , min us , smaller min imus, -a, -um , smallest sen ex , sen is , old sen ior max imus nātū iuven is, -e , young iūn ior min imus nātū vet us , vet eris , old vetust ior, -ius veter rimus, -a, -um facil is, -e , easy facil ior, -ius facil limus, -a, -um difficil is, -e , difficult difficil ior, -ius difficil limus, -a, -um simil is, -e , similar simil ior, -ius simil limus, -a, -um dissimil is, -e , dissimilar dissimil ior, -ius dissimil limus, -a, -um humil is, -e , low humil ior, -ius humil limus, -a, -um gracil is, -e , slender gracil ior, -ius gracil limus, -a, -um exter us , outward exter ior , outer, exterior extrē mus ext imus outermost, last īnfer us , below īnfer ior , lower īnf imus īmus lowest poster us , following poster ior , later postrē mus post umus last super us , above super ior , higher suprē mus sum mus highest [cis, citrā, on this side ] citer ior , hither citi mus , hithermost [in, intrā, in, within ] inter ior , inner int imus , inmost [prae, prō, before ] pr ior , former prī mus , first [prope, near ] prop ior , nearer prox imus , next [ultrā, beyond ] ulter ior , further ult imus , furthest 238 476.
— from Latin for Beginners by Benjamin L. (Benjamin Leonard) D'Ooge

Your deeds got into extemporised strong-rooms made of kitchens and sculleries, and fretted all the fat out of their parchments into the banking-house air.
— from A Tale of Two Cities by Charles Dickens

How could you guess it either, sir?”
— from The Brothers Karamazov by Fyodor Dostoyevsky

"No, professor, but it needs electricity to run, batteries to generate its electricity, sodium to feed its batteries, coal to make its sodium, and coalfields from which to dig its coal.
— from Twenty Thousand Leagues Under the Seas: An Underwater Tour of the World by Jules Verne

Fantastically whirled the professionals, a young man in sleek evening-clothes and a slim mad girl in emerald silk, with amber hair flung up as jaggedly as flam
— from Babbitt by Sinclair Lewis

Gebt ihr ein Stück, so gebt es gleich in Stücken —If 15 your aim is to give a piece, be sure you give it in pieces.
— from Dictionary of Quotations from Ancient and Modern, English and Foreign Sources Including Phrases, Mottoes, Maxims, Proverbs, Definitions, Aphorisms, and Sayings of Wise Men, in Their Bearing on Life, Literature, Speculation, Science, Art, Religion, and Morals, Especially in the Modern Aspects of Them by Wood, James, Rev.

The fines imposed go in equal shares to the aramanai (literally palace, i.e. , to the headman himself), and to the oramanai, that is, the caste people.
— from Castes and Tribes of Southern India. Vol. 7 of 7 by Edgar Thurston

The principal said that when three of them two years ago went around the world on an educational trip, this old scholar among them, the United States Government gave them a special secret service detective from New York to San Francisco, and this man was so impressed with the old Chinese gentleman that he said: “What kind of education can produce such a man as that, the finest gentleman I ever saw.
— from Letters from China and Japan by Harriet Alice Chipman Dewey

‘For myself,’ observed Madame Mantalini, glancing with affected carelessness at her assistant, and laughing heartily in her sleeve, ‘I consider Miss Nickleby the most awkward girl I ever saw in my life.’
— from Nicholas Nickleby by Charles Dickens

You may say what you want to, but in my opinion she had more sand in her than any girl I ever see; in my opinion she was just full of sand.
— from The Adventures of Huckleberry Finn (Tom Sawyer's Comrade) by Mark Twain

All this time Pringle was going on with his orders, given in ever so many voices, which seemed to come from different directions.
— from My Austrian Love The History of the Adventures of an English Composer in Vienna. Written in the Trenches by Himself by Maxime Provost

But how to get it, even should he want it?
— from The Wilderness Trail by Francis William Sullivan

They eagerly asked for toore-tooree ; and gave in exchange some ornaments of shells, and a kind of plum somewhat resembling a jambo .
— from A Voyage to Terra Australis — Volume 1 Undertaken for the purpose of completing the discovery of that vast country, and prosecuted in the years 1801, 1802 and 1803, in His Majesty's ship the Investigator, and subsequently in the armed vessel Porpoise and Cumberland schooner by Matthew Flinders

Twigs: Green in early spring, turning orange-brown, with many light colored dots ( lenticels ).
— from Common Trees of Pennsylvania by J. E. Aughenbaugh

The digestive tract, especially of the chimpanzee and gorilla, is essentially similar to that of man and at least some captive chimpanzees thrive upon a mixed diet including large quantities of fruits, vegetables and bread and small quantities of meat [1352] .
— from Man, Past and Present by A. H. (Augustus Henry) Keane