english gurus - smarter or more smart

TMs1stBaby

This is driving me crazy.  I keep hearing people saying things like - I guess that would have been more smart.  I have always just said smarter?  Is smarter a word or no?  What would be considered proper.  Why does "more smart" sound so strange to me. 

jillijo

Smarter is the smarter thing to say.

azaretsky

Definitely "smarter"

TMs1stBaby

Thank you!  God, I am surrounded by so many stupid people that I am starting to doubt my own intelligence.  WTF?

Valentine99

It's smart, smarter, smartest. Just in case somone needs the reference tool.

https://dictionary.reference.com/browse/smarter

 

 

punkfiction_v.3

1 syllable almost always = -er

CMDR513

1-2 syllables =

-er suffix

 3 or more = more + word