crosser

Pluralcrossers

1. 1
   nouncountable

   A person or thing that crosses something, such as a boundary, a road, or a stretch of water.

   Border crossers often travel after dark to avoid the patrols.

   The new footbridge gives every crosser a clear view of the river below.

2. 2
   adjective

   Comparative form of cross.

   The longer she waited, the crosser she became.

   He was even crosser than his sister about the canceled trip.

   Note

   Here the -er is the comparative ending, not the agent suffix. The spelling is shared with the noun for someone who crosses, but this form is built on the adjective, not the verb. It usually serves the bad-tempered cross, a sense marked British: the crosser she became. As a one-syllable adjective, cross takes the inflected comparative naturally, though more cross remains an accepted alternative.

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