Irregular     Comparatives & Superlatives

Adjectives can have two additional forms to express degrees of modification: comparative and superlative.

Use the comparative form of an adjective when comparing one thing with another; and
the superlative form when comparing one thing with the rest (more than one) in the whole group.

Adjectives of one syllable | two or more syllables

	Adjective	Comparative	Superlative
Irregular forms	good bad far much / many little	better worse farther more less	best worst farthest most least
Negative prefix un- 1	unhappy untidy	unhappier untidier	unhappiest untidiest
Compound adjectives	good-looking well-known	better-looking more good-looking better-known more well-known	best-looking most good-looking best-known most well-known

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^{1 Even though these words have three syllables, they do not follow the regular comparative and superlative forms
for adjectives with three syllables: more and most}

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