Best (comparative (nonstandard, humorous) bester, superlative (nonstandard, humorous) bestest) Good /gʊd/USA pronunciation adj., bet•ter/ˈbɛtɚ/USA pronunciation best/bɛst/USA pronunciation n., interj., adv. KSI Slots adj. n. Bet•ter1 /ˈbɛtɚ/USA pronunciation adj. comparative form of good.adv., comparative form of well. v. n. Best /bɛst/USA pronunciation adj., adv., superlative form of well. Most advantageously, most fittingly, most usefully, most profitably, most beneficially Studying is best done alone. Most sensible thing, wisest thing, most desirable thing, most advisable thing, most prudent thing The best we can do is try to stay cool and muddle through.
Santa Monica should reach 87 degrees, surpassing the daily record of 85 set in 2011; and Hawthorne is expected to hit 93 degrees, besting the record of 88 set in 2015. Its third-quarter guidance for both profit and sales, at the midpoint, also bested forecasts. The U.S. swimmer bested Mark Spitz’s seven golds won at the Munich games in 1972. They notoriously bested Kendrick Lamar at the 2014 Grammy Awards in the rap album category. A common ordinary seaman bests the great Inigo Montoya with the sword?
People also use this word to recommend something, as in "It would be best to get a lot of sleep." Nothing is better than the best — this is a word for the absolute number one example of something. First recorded before 900; Middle English beste, Old English betst, best; cognate with Dutch best, Old High German bezzist ( German best ), Old Norse bezt, Gothic batists; see better 1, -est 1 Borrowed from Middle English beste (whence modern English beast), from Old French beste, from Latin bēstia.
countablev. uncountable well2 /wɛl/USA pronunciation n. Adv. adj. interj. countable Idioms countable v. ~ + object Idioms See better.
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