different between suppletive vs suppletively

English

suppletive (comparative more suppletive, superlative most suppletive)

Supplying deficiencies; supplementary; suppletory.
(grammar) Which supplies an etymologically unrelated word with forms, or which is used as one of its forms, by suppletion (for example, in English, better and best are suppletive forms of good).
(law)Relating to laws which can apply in a contract if the parties choose to agree to this.
- Labine v. Vincent, 401 U.S. 532 (1971), Harlan, J., concurring:

suppletive (plural suppletives)

suppletive

suppletive +? -ly

suppletively (comparative more suppletively, superlative most suppletively)

In a suppletive way.
- 2012, Jonathan David Bobaljik, Universals in Comparative Morphology (page 195)
  And as noted in chapter 2, in exactly this sense the adjective bad compares regularly, not suppletively: bad – badder – baddest.

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