Degrees of Adjectives, Definition, Positive, Comparative, and Superlative Examples
What is the degree of Adjectives?
The three degrees of adjectives are the positive degree, comparative degree, and superlative degree. Some degrees of adjectives are the regular degrees of adjectives and they follow the rules and some are the irregular degrees of adjectives and they do not follow any rules.
Related: Comparative and superlative Adjectives List
| Positive | Comparative | Superlative |
| bright | brighter | the brightest |
| bold | bolder | the boldest |
| black | blacker | the blackest |
| big | bigger | the biggest |
| beautiful | more beautiful | most beautiful |
| ugly | uglier | the ugliest |
| true | truer | the truest |
| thick | thicker | the thickest |
| tall | taller | the tallest |
| strong | stronger | the strongest |
| strange | stranger | the strangest |
| sorry | sorrier | the sorriest |
| small | smaller | the smallest |
| slow | slower | the slowest |
| simple | simpler | the simplest |
| short | shorter | the shortest |
| sharp | sharper | the sharpest |
| rusty | rustier | the rustiest |
| quiet | quieter | the quietest |
| pure | purer | the purest |
| proud | prouder | the proudest |
| poor | poorer | the poorest |
| old | older | the oldest |
| nice | nicer | the nicest |
| fascinating | more fascinating | the most fascinating |
| famous | more famous | the most famous |
| difficult | more difficult | the most difficult |
| confused | more confused | the most confused |
| late | later | the latest |
| late | later | the latest |
| greedy | greedier | the greediest |
| gloomy | gloomier | the gloomiest |
| fierce | fiercer | the fiercest |
| fat | fatter | the fattest |
| fat | fatter | the fattest |
| fast | faster | the fastest |
| far | farther / further | the farthest/ furthest |
| dirty | dirtier | the dirtiest |
| dense | denser | the densest |
| creamy | creamier | the creamiest |
| clever | Cleverer | the cleverest |
| clean | Cleaner | the cleanest |
| classy | classier | the classiest |
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