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Related: Editorials & Other Articles, Issue Forums, Alliance Forums, Region ForumsIs obviouser a word?
for we who have known all along is obviouser appropriate when we try to explain to the Rubes?
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Is obviouser a word? (Original Post)
gibraltar72
Mar 2017
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Thomas Hurt
(13,931 posts)1. no
more obvious....or overobvious, though I don't think that overobvious is in common usage.
Motley13
(3,867 posts)2. bigly is, why not obviouser?

Squinch
(56,275 posts)5. It nauseates me to see "bigly" becoming part of the lexicon. A stupid word from a stupid man
that makes everything it's included in sound stupid. It's used so much as a joke that it's inches away from becoming accepted.
Obviouser may be wrong, but it doesn't make my scalp shrink.
blm
(114,198 posts)3. It is if you need to reach that Triple Word Score
; )
johnp3907
(4,054 posts)4. It's a perfectly cromulent word.
It's good to embiggen your vocabulary, although some grammar purists may remain intragnizent.