Superlatives usually end in -est, and remain unaltered when definite.
Some comparatives and superlatives are yet found in good writers formed without regard to the foregoing rules; but in a language subjected so little and so lately to grammar, such anomalies must frequently occur.
The modern critic--I should say the modern critic of the censorious kind, not the critic who looks on it as his duty to puff out meaningless superlatives over every book that appears--will not allow any author to be mediocre.
He writes in superlatives that give one the impression that he is furious about something or other even when he is being fairly sensible.
I do not mean that the critic has not the right to fling about superlatives like any other man.
Criticism, in one aspect, is the art of flinging about superlatives finely.
We have got so used to superlatives that our own racy tongue has become debauched and we have no superlatives left.
Why is the excessive use of superlativesan indication of ignorance of the article being sold?
They made no exclamations; they had no superlatives at command.
Jahn of Seyfried's superlatives and related in these terms: Beethoven, who as a youth of great promise came to Vienna in 1786 (?
If it is not important to criticism--and how many superlatives are?
Without becoming unidiomatic, one may boldly form superlatives and diminutives of every adjective; this is done sometimes even with nouns.
So I thought; but afterwards I found these same superlatives in Heckewelder, who added specifically that "the Delawares had formed them to address or designate the Supreme being.
On the contrary, there are several among them, from which true superlatives are frequently and correctly formed.
Double Comparatives and [Double] Superlatives should be avoided.
But in fact, though the before comparatives or superlatives be no article, Dr.
Between superlatives and following names, Of, by grammatic right, a station claims.
Superlatives and all words denoting comparison should be used with stinginess.
Superlatives are often used, though improperly in a comparison of two.
A word often misapplied especially by persons accustomed to use inane superlatives as “She died with laughing”; “I thought she’d have died.
Many comparatives andsuperlatives in er and est that are no longer allowable in prose are still used in poetry.
Of course," he admitted; "but Billy was talking about Merry in superlativesas usual, and I was trying to quiet him down.
Like the French, they are enchanted, they are desolate, because you have got or have not got a shoestring or a wafer you happen to want--not perceiving that superlatives are diminutives and weaken.
Beware of using "any" or "other" with superlatives followed by "of.
The chronicler flings into superlatives when he comes to praise the personal beauty of the man, his physical vigour and health, "which go to increase the veneration shown him.
To vituperate in superlatives seems common to most who have taken in hand this and other episodes in the history of the Borgias.
The habit of false emphasis and the love of superlatives is a far worse defect, and no one has attempted to clear Macaulay of the charge.
With Macaulay the superlatives pour out as his native vernacular without heat or wrath, as a mere rhetorician's trick, as the favourite tones of a great colourist.
And in the midst of these long-drawn superlatives and glittering contrasts come in short martial phrases, as brief and sharp as a drill-sergeant's word of command.
It is a powerful form of superlative, and soon vanishes away, as do other superlativesin this age of strong words.
From thence the view out to the harbor and beyond the harbor to the islands is, I may not say unequaled, or I shall be guilty of running into superlatives myself, but it is in its way equal to anything I have seen.
Those superlativesneed not be served up again here.
None who witnessed it can ever forget the scene, which the English newspaper correspondents required all theirsuperlatives to describe for London readers next day.
The above list will hopefully give you a few useful examples demonstrating the appropriate usage of "superlatives" in a variety of sentences. We hope that you will now be able to make sentences using this word.
