Comparison of Adjective
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hotter than yesterday. But what if I want to express that yesterday
was less hot ( OR less hotter) than today.
What is correct? LESS HOT or LESS HOTTER?
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Oleg Lego
Less Hotter is completely wrong.
Less Hot is OK, though you will usually hear it said in other ways.
Yesterday was just a little cooler.
It's not as hot as yesterday.
It's hotter today than yesterday.
John Doherty
wrote:
"Less hotter" is not OK. "Less hot" is OK, but "not as hot" is
probably more idiomatic.
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Mark Brader
>> hotter than yesterday. But what if I want to express that yesterday
>> was less hot ( OR less hotter) than today.
>> What is correct? LESS HOT or LESS HOTTER?
> Less Hotter is completely wrong.
Agreed, and I would use it.
> though you will usually hear it said in other ways.
> Yesterday was just a little cooler.
I would consider this jocular. You can't say seriously "cooler"
unless you're talking about temperatures that are cool.
> It's not as hot as yesterday.
This is backwards. It should be "Yesterday was not as hot as today."
> It's hotter today than yesterday.
This is possible.
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John Holmes
>>> Assume that today is 100F, yesterday was 95F. That means today is
>>> hotter than yesterday. But what if I want to express that yesterday
>>> was less hot ( OR less hotter) than today.
>>> What is correct? LESS HOT or LESS HOTTER?
>
>> Less Hotter is completely wrong.
>> Less Hot is OK ...
>
> Agreed, and I would use it.
>
>> though you will usually hear it said in other ways.
>> Yesterday was just a little cooler.
>
> I would consider this jocular. You can't say seriously "cooler"
> unless you're talking about temperatures that are cool.
It's relative; not necessarily jocular. If you are somewhere that most days
are100F or more, and yesterday was 95F, then 'cooler' sounds correct.
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Steve MacGregor
> >> Assume that today is 100F, yesterday was 95F. That means today is
> >> hotter than yesterday.
> > though you will usually hear it said in other ways.
> > Yesterday was just a little cooler.
>
> I would consider this jocular. You can't say seriously "cooler"
> unless you're talking about temperatures that are cool.
Unless you live in Phoenix, where 100°F is cool, so 95° is even
cooler. At 105°, it's edging up toward warm, and at 110, it's there.
115° is hot, and 120° is too hot.
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Al in Dallas
wrote:
One summer in Dallas, a "cold" front came through and dropped the
temperature ten whole degrees--to 100°F. (IIRC, it was the summer of
1999.)
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Evan Kirshenbaum
>>> Assume that today is 100F, yesterday was 95F. That means today is
>>> hotter than yesterday. But what if I want to express that
>>> yesterday was less hot ( OR less hotter) than today. What is
>>> correct? LESS HOT or LESS HOTTER?
[snip]
>> Yesterday was just a little cooler.
>
> I would consider this jocular. You can't say seriously "cooler"
> unless you're talking about temperatures that are cool.
I wouldn't it consider it either jocular or unusual. I wouldn't say
"colder", but "cooler", for me, applies all to the entire range (or at
least the entire range north of "cold").
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