Degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs

The degrees of comparison of adjectives and adverbs are the various forms taken by adjectives and adverbs when used to compare two or more 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 English 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 ''elative'' in Semitic linguistics).

Comparatives and superlatives may be formed in morphology by inflection, as with the English and German ''-er'' and ''-(e)st'' forms and Latin's ''-ior'' (, ), or syntactically, as with the English ''more...'' and ''most...'' and the French ''plus...'' and ''le plus...'' forms , below}}. Provided by Wikipedia