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English
Etymology
From better + -some.
Adjective
bettersome (comparative more bettersome, superlative most bettersome)
- Characterised or marked by betterness; finer; superior; improved.
1855, Baynard Rush Hall, The New Purchase:" […] but my friends, there's a speretil and bettersome idee: —one penny is the law, and tother's the gospel."
1857, Matthias Cathrow Turner, A saunter through Surrey, page 169: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; […]
1859, James Hamilton, Memoirs of the Life of James Wilson, page 245:Land, and a bettersome sort of room with a bed in it on the right.
1902, Alexander Grant, Physician and Friend:Altogether I have a bettersome feeling.