Adjective: easter
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more easter |
| Superlative | most easter |
Sample Sentences
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In the mean while, as our apartment was a corner one, and looked both east and north, I ran to the easter casement to look after Drummond. [1824, James Hogg, The Private Memoirs and Confessions of a Justified Sinner, Oxford, published 2010, page 57:]
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This is properly two, if not three towns — there being an Easter Anstruther and a Wester Anstruther, both burghs, besides a large fishing village […] [1828, The Picture of Scotland, page 187:]
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There had been a Little and a Meikle, and an Easter and a Wester Coull two centuries ago; and there had been a castle on the property […] [1885, Alex Johnston Warden, Angus Or Forfarshire: The Land and People, Descriptive and Historical, page 204:]
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It is styled, as we have seen, Wester Rires, which implies an Easter Rires; and this last portion of it probably lay to the north-east, and included […] [1887, Walter Wood, The East Neuk of Fife: Its History and Antiquities, page 118:]
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'The fact remains that there is an Easter Fintry and a Wester Fintry in this part of the world. Just as there is an Easter Golford and a Wester Golford, ... [2011, J.I.M. Stewart, Mungo's Dream, House of Stratus, →ISBN, page 219:]
Adjectives inflected like easter
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Old English eastera, eastra. Compare norther, souther, wester.