suppletively

English

Etymology

From suppletive +‎ -ly.

Adverb

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: bad – badder – baddest.
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