mieux
Appearance
French
[edit]Etymology
[edit]Inherited from Middle French mieulx, from Old French mielz, mialz, miels, from Latin melius.
Pronunciation
[edit]Adverb
[edit]mieux
- comparative degree of bien; better
- Il va mieux que jamais. ― He's going better than ever.
- Timothée la connaît bien mieux que moi. ― Timothy knows her better than I do.
- (with definite article, le mieux) superlative degree of bien; best
- (Saint-Étienne) more, -er.
- Synonym: plus
- C’est mieux cher si tu achètes à l’unité. ― It's more expensive if you buy individually.
Noun
[edit]mieux m (plural mieux)
- the best of one's ability, one's best
- 1837, Louis Viardot, L’Ingénieux Hidalgo Don Quichotte de la Manchefr.Wikisource, translation of El ingenioso hidalgo Don Quijote de la Mancha by Miguel de Cervantes Saavedra, Volume I, Chapter II:
- À ces sottises, il en ajoutait cent autres, toutes à la manière de celles que ses livres lui avaient apprises, imitant de son mieux leur langage.
- To these foolish sayings, he added a hundred others, all in the manner of those that his books had taught him, imitating to the best of his ability their language.
Derived terms
[edit]- à qui mieux mieux
- au mieux
- de mieux en mieux
- deux avis valent mieux qu’un
- faire de son mieux
- faire mieux de
- faute de mieux
- le mieux est l’ennemi du bien
- mieux que rien
- mieux vaut prévenir que guérir
- mieux vaut tard que jamais
- on n’est jamais mieux servi que par soi-même
- qui dit mieux
- tant mieux
- un tiens vaut mieux que deux tu l’auras
- valoir mieux
Related terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “mieux”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
- “mieux” in Dictionnaire français en ligne Larousse.
- “mieux” in Dico en ligne Le Robert.
- mieux on the French Wiktionary.Wiktionary fr
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