Gest vs. Best — What's the Difference?

A notable adventure or exploit.

Of the most excellent or desirable type or quality

A verse romance or tale.

To the highest degree; most (used with verbs suggesting a desirable action or state or a successful outcome)

A prose romance.

That which is the most excellent, outstanding, or desirable

(archaic) A story or adventure; a verse or prose romance.

Outwit or get the better of (someone)

(archaic) An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.

Surpassing all others in excellence, achievement, or quality; most excellent

(archaic) bearing; deportment

Most satisfactory, suitable, or useful; most desirable

(obsolete) A gesture or action.

Greatest; most

(obsolete) A stage in travelling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey; a rest.

Most highly skilled

(obsolete) A roll reciting the several stages arranged for a royal progress.

In a most excellent way; most creditably or advantageously.

A guest.

To the greatest degree or extent; most

Something done or achieved; a deed or an action; an adventure.

One that surpasses all others.

An action represented in sports, plays, or on the stage; show; ceremony.

The best part, moment, or value

A tale of achievements or adventures; a stock story.

The optimum condition or quality

Gesture; bearing; deportment.

One's nicest or most formal clothing.

A stage in traveling; a stop for rest or lodging in a journey or progress; a rest.

The supreme effort one can make

A roll recting the several stages arranged for a royal progress. Many of them are extant in the herald's office.

One's warmest wishes or regards

To get the better of; beat

Most; largest.

Most superior; most favorable.

To the most advantage; with the most success, cause, profit, benefit, or propriety.

(uncountable) The supreme effort one can make, or has made.

(uncountable) One's best behavior.

(countable) The person (or persons; or thing or things) that is (are) most excellent.

To surpass in skill or achievement.

(transitive) To beat in a contest.

Had best.

Having good qualities in the highest degree; most good, kind, desirable, suitable, etc.; most excellent; as, the best man; the best road; the best cloth; the best abilities.

Most advanced; most correct or complete; as, the best scholar; the best view of a subject.

Most; largest; as, the best part of a week.

Utmost; highest endeavor or state; most nearly perfect thing, or being, or action; as, to do one's best; to the best of our ability.

In the highest degree; beyond all others.

To the most advantage; with the most success, case, profit, benefit, or propriety.

Most intimately; most thoroughly or correctly; as, what is expedient is best known to himself.

To get the better of.

The supreme effort one can make;

The person who is most outstanding or excellent; someone who tops all others;

Canadian physiologist (born in the United States) who assisted F. G. Banting in research leading to the discovery of insulin (1899-1978)

Get the better of;

(superlative of `good') having the most positive qualities;

(comparative and superlative of `well') wiser or more advantageous and hence advisable;

In a most excellent way or manner;

It would be sensible;

From a position of superiority or authority;