Sentence:  You wonder about the Christmas card with no name on it , and it comes to you that maybe it would have been <WSD>better</WSD> to have made somebody else happy if you could n't be happy yourself , to give somebody else the one they wanted - to give them you . 
Meaning of the word marked with <WSD> tags:  (comparative of `good') superior to another (of the same class or set or kind) in excellence or quality or desirability or suitability; more highly skilled than another