meetest

English

Etymology

meet +‎ -est

Verb

meetest

  1. (archaic) second-person singular simple present indicative of meet

Adjective

meetest

  1. superlative form of meet: most meet
    • c. 1596–1598 (date written), William Shakespeare, “The Merchant of Venice”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act IV, scene i]:
      Antonio:
      I am a tainted wether of the flock,
      Meetest for death: the weakest kind of fruit
      Drops earliest to the ground; and so let me;
      You cannot better be employ'd, Bassanio,
      Than to live still, and write mine epitaph.
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