"bettersome" meaning in English

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        "2": "better",
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      "name": "suf"
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  ],
  "etymology_text": "From better + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more bettersome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bettersome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
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  "lang": "English",
  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase",
          "text": "\"[…] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Matthias Cathrow Turner, A saunter through Surrey, page 169",
          "text": "We then paced up and down the High-street, viewing the shops becoming gradually shutterless—the milkman paying his early call—and pretty, rosy-cheeked country lasses, with their pails and brooms, tidying up the doorways of the more bettersome abodes; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, James Hamilton, Memoirs of the Life of James Wilson, page 245",
          "text": "Land, and a bettersome sort of room with a bed in it on the right.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Alexander Grant, Physician and Friend",
          "text": "Altogether I have a bettersome feeling.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "Characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved."
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          "superior"
        ],
        [
          "improved",
          "improved"
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  "word": "bettersome"
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    {
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        "1": "en",
        "2": "better",
        "3": "-some",
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      },
      "expansion": "better + -some",
      "name": "suf"
    }
  ],
  "etymology_text": "From better + -some.",
  "forms": [
    {
      "form": "more bettersome",
      "tags": [
        "comparative"
      ]
    },
    {
      "form": "most bettersome",
      "tags": [
        "superlative"
      ]
    }
  ],
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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "adj",
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      "examples": [
        {
          "ref": "1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase",
          "text": "\"[…] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel.\"",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1857, Matthias Cathrow Turner, A saunter through Surrey, page 169",
          "text": "We then paced up and down the High-street, viewing the shops becoming gradually shutterless—the milkman paying his early call—and pretty, rosy-cheeked country lasses, with their pails and brooms, tidying up the doorways of the more bettersome abodes; […]",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1859, James Hamilton, Memoirs of the Life of James Wilson, page 245",
          "text": "Land, and a bettersome sort of room with a bed in it on the right.",
          "type": "quotation"
        },
        {
          "ref": "1902, Alexander Grant, Physician and Friend",
          "text": "Altogether I have a bettersome feeling.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
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        "Characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved."
      ],
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          "finer",
          "finer"
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          "improved",
          "improved"
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  "word": "bettersome"
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