suppletively

English

Etymology

suppletive +‎ -ly

Adverb

suppletively (comparative more suppletively, superlative most suppletively)

1. 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.