Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs

The degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs are the various forms taken by <a href="/facts/Adjective/0ohBjtmT">adjectives</a> and <a href="/facts/Adverb/gDhqt9np">adverbs</a> when used to compare two entities (comparative degree), three or more entities (superlative degree), or when not comparing entities (positive degree) in terms of a certain property or way of doing something.
The usual degrees of comparison are the positive, which denotes a certain property or a certain way of doing something without comparing (as with the <a href="/facts/English_grammar/zBGLlTYH">English</a> words big and fully); the comparative degree, which indicates greater degree (e.g. bigger and more fully [comparative of superiority] or as big and as fully [comparative of equality] or less big and less fully [comparative of inferiority]); and the superlative, which indicates greatest degree (e.g. biggest and most fully [superlative of superiority] or least big and least fully [superlative of inferiority]). Some languages have forms indicating a very large degree of a particular quality (called <a href="/facts/Elative_(gradation)/wN15Dl5V">elative</a> in Semitic linguistics).
Comparatives and superlatives may be formed in <a href="/facts/Morphology_(linguistics)/fWkzsYE8">morphology</a> by inflection, as with the English and <a href="/facts/German_grammar/AdeC1rzD">German</a> -er and -(e)st forms and Latin's -ior (superior, excelsior), or <a href="/facts/Syntax/6PxSV98p">syntactically</a>, as with the English more... and most... and the <a href="/facts/French_grammar/Q0FYsFfE">French</a> plus... and le plus... forms (see § Formation of comparatives and superlatives, below).

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Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs