different between beautifuller vs beautifulest

English

Etymology

beautiful +? -er

Adjective

beautifuller

1. (obsolete) comparative form of beautiful: more beautiful
   • 1843 Thomas Carlyle: Paste and Present (page 15)

     Many men eat finer cookery, drink dearer liquors [...] but in the heart of them, if we go out of the dyspeptic stomach, what increase of blessedness is there? Are they better, beautifuller, stronger, braver?

   • 1854 -- Gerald Massey -- Poems and Ballads (page 82)

     They were three Spirits fresh from God's own hand,

     And beautifuller ne'er took mortal mould

   • 1885 -- Walter Geikie --- Etchings illustrative of Scottish character and scenery. Sir T.D. Lauder's (page 54)

     I've travell'd the world all over

     And many a place beside

     And I never did see a beautifuller city

     Than that on the banks of the navigatable river, the Clyde.

English

Alternative forms

• beautifullest

Etymology

From beautiful +? -est.

Adjective

beautifulest

1. superlative form of beautiful: most beautiful; more beautiful than anyone or anything else.
   • 1857, Benjamin Franklin Tefft, The shoulder-knot; or, Sketches of the three-fold life of man: A story of the seventeenth century, Harper &d Brothers, p. 175-6:

     ...and thy dear Baby Charles, as chance had ordered, had a fair sight of the beautifulest of princesses, Henrietta Maria, sister to the king...

   • 1922, Charles N. Lurie, How to say it: helpful hints on English, G.P. Putnam's sons, p. 23:

     "I saw the beautifulest dress displayed in the window; the color was one of the delicatest blues I ever saw."

   • 1970, Jane Grey Cannon Swisshelm and Paul Dennis Sporer, Half a Century, Anza Publishing, p. 34:

     They were the beautifulest boys I ever laid eyes on, and uncle sot great store by them.