adj
Meaning 1
Of or relating to comparison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- He gave us a comparative example to illustrate how the human mind works.
Meaning relationships
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Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
comparative
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Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /kəmˈpæɹətɪv/
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General-American: kəmʹpăr-ə-tĭv
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/kəmˈpæɹətɪv/ without the Mary–marry–merry merger
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/kəmˈpɛɹətɪv/ Mary–marry–merry merger
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adj
Meaning 2
Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- A comparative study between Homo Sapiens and Homo neanderthalensis.
- comparative anatomy
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adj
Meaning 3
Approximated by comparison; relative.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- I've passed the test with comparative ease.
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adj
Meaning 4
Comparable; bearing comparison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
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noun
Meaning 5
The degree of comparison of an adjective or adverb used when comparing two entities in terms of a certain property or a certain way of doing something. In English, the comparative of superiority is formed by adding the suffix -er or the word more (e.g. bigger, more fully); the comparative of equality, by adding the word as (e.g. as big, as fully); the comparative of inferiority, by adding the word less (e.g. less big, less fully).
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: comparative degree
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: degree of comparison
noun
Meaning 6
An adjective or adverb in the comparative degree.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Topics: grammar, human-sciences, linguistics, sciences
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noun
Meaning 7
Data used to make a comparison.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: in-plural
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noun
Meaning 8
An equal; a rival; a compeer.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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noun
Meaning 9
One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: obsolete
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adjective
Meaning 10
estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- a relative stranger
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: relative
Antonyms: none provided
adjective
Meaning 11
relating to or based on or involving comparison
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- comparative linguistics
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noun
Meaning 12
the comparative form of an adjective or adverb
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- `faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'
- `less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'
- `more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: comparative degree
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: adjective, adverb
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Proto-Indo-European *ḱe? Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm Proto-Italic *kom Proto-Italic *kom- Latin con- Latin pār Latin compār Proto-Indo-European *-h2 Proto-Indo-European *-éh2 Proto-Indo-European *-yéti Proto-Indo-European *-eh2yéti Proto-Indo-European *-h2tiinflu. Proto-Italic *-ājō Proto-Italic *-āō Latin -ō Latin comparō Proto-Indo-European *-wós Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder. Latin īvus Latin comparātīvusbor. Old French comparatifbor. Middle English comparatif English comparative From Middle English comparatif, from Middle French comparatif, from Latin comparātīvus, equivalent to comparātus, from comparāre (“to compare”) + -ive, from Latin -īvus.
Across languages
Translations
147 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: համեմատական (hamematakan) — of or relating to comparison
- Azerbaijani: müqayisəli — of or relating to comparison
- Belarusian: параўна́льны (parawnálʹny) — of or relating to comparison
- Bulgarian: сравни́телен (sravnítelen) — of or relating to comparison
- Catalan: comparatiu — of or relating to comparison
- Czech: srovnávací — of or relating to comparison
- Danish: komparativ — of or relating to comparison
- Danish: sammenlignende — of or relating to comparison
- Dutch: vergelijkend — of or relating to comparison
- Finnish: verrannollinen — of or relating to comparison
- Finnish: vertaileva — of or relating to comparison
- French: comparatif — of or relating to comparison
- Galician: comparativo — of or relating to comparison
- German: vergleichend — of or relating to comparison
- Greek: συγκριτικός (sygkritikós) — of or relating to comparison
- Ancient Greek: συγκριτικός (sunkritikós) — of or relating to comparison
- Indonesian: komparatif — of or relating to comparison
- Indonesian: perbandingan — of or relating to comparison
- Icelandic: miðstig — of or relating to comparison
- Irish: comparáideach — of or relating to comparison
- Italian: comparativo — of or relating to comparison
- Macedonian: споредбен (sporedben) — of or relating to comparison
- Norman: compathatif — of or relating to comparison
- Norwegian: komparativ — of or relating to comparison
- Persian: تفضیلی — of or relating to comparison
- Persian: تطبیقی — of or relating to comparison
- Polish: porównawczy — of or relating to comparison
- Portuguese: comparativo — of or relating to comparison
- Romanian: comparativ — of or relating to comparison
- Russian: сравни́тельный (sravnítelʹnyj) — of or relating to comparison
- Slovak: porovnávací — of or relating to comparison
- Slovene: primerjalen — of or relating to comparison
- Spanish: comparativo — of or relating to comparison
- Tagalog: hambingin — of or relating to comparison
- Turkish: karşılaştırmalı — of or relating to comparison
- Turkish: mukayeseli — of or relating to comparison
- Ottoman Turkish: مقایسهلی — of or relating to comparison
- Ukrainian: порівня́льний (porivnjálʹnyj) — of or relating to comparison
- Armenian: համեմատական (hamematakan) — using comparison as a method of study
- Azerbaijani: müqayisəli — using comparison as a method of study
- Azerbaijani: müqayisəvi — using comparison as a method of study
- Bengali: তুলনামূলক (tulnamulok) — using comparison as a method of study
- Bulgarian: сравни́телен (sravnítelen) — using comparison as a method of study
- Catalan: comparatiu — using comparison as a method of study
- Danish: komparativ — using comparison as a method of study
- Finnish: vertaileva — using comparison as a method of study
- French: comparatif — using comparison as a method of study
- German: komparativ — using comparison as a method of study
- Greek: συγκριτικός (sygkritikós) — using comparison as a method of study
- Hungarian: összehasonlító — using comparison as a method of study
- Hungarian: komparatív — using comparison as a method of study
- Irish: comparáideach — using comparison as a method of study
- Italian: comparativo — using comparison as a method of study
- Norman: compathatif — using comparison as a method of study
- Portuguese: comparativo — using comparison as a method of study
- Romanian: comparativ — using comparison as a method of study
- Russian: сравни́тельный (sravnítelʹnyj) — using comparison as a method of study
- Slovak: komparatívny — using comparison as a method of study
- Spanish: comparativo — using comparison as a method of study
- Swedish: jämförande — using comparison as a method of study
- Swedish: komparativ — using comparison as a method of study
- Tagalog: hambingin — using comparison as a method of study
- Uzbek: qiyosiy — using comparison as a method of study
- Bulgarian: относи́телен (otnosítelen) — relative
- Finnish: suhteellinen — relative
- Finnish: verrannollinen — relative
- German: verhältnismäßig — relative
- German: relativ — relative
- Italian: comparativo — relative
- Russian: относи́тельный (otnosítelʹnyj) — relative
- Slovak: relatívny — relative
- Slovak: pomerný — relative
- Spanish: comparativo — relative
- Welsh: cymharol — relative
- Albanian: shkalla krahasore — degree of comparison
- Arabic: دَرَجَة نِسْبِيَّة — degree of comparison
- Belarusian: вышэ́йшая ступе́нь (vyšéjšaja stupjénʹ) — degree of comparison
- Belarusian: параўна́льная ступе́нь (parawnálʹnaja stupjénʹ) — degree of comparison
- Breton: derez-uheloc'h — degree of comparison
- Bulgarian: сравни́телна сте́пен (sravnítelna stépen) — degree of comparison
- Catalan: comparatiu — degree of comparison
- Chinese Mandarin: 比較級 /比较级 (bǐjiàojí) — degree of comparison
- Czech: druhý stupeň — degree of comparison
- Czech: komparativ — degree of comparison
- Dutch: vergrotende trap — degree of comparison
- Dutch: vergelijkende trap — degree of comparison
- Estonian: keskvõrre — degree of comparison
- Estonian: komparatiiv — degree of comparison
- Faroese: miðstig — degree of comparison
- Finnish: komparatiivi — degree of comparison
- Finnish: vertailumuoto — degree of comparison
- French: comparatif — degree of comparison
- German: Höherstufe — degree of comparison
- German: Mehrstufe — degree of comparison
- German: Komparativ — degree of comparison
- Greek: συγκριτικός (sygkritikós) — degree of comparison
- Ancient Greek: συγκριτικόν (sunkritikón) — degree of comparison
- Hungarian: középfok — degree of comparison
- Icelandic: miðstig — degree of comparison
- Indonesian: pelebihan — degree of comparison
- Ingrian: rinnoitussteeppeni — degree of comparison
- Ingrian: komparativa — degree of comparison
- Irish: breischéim — degree of comparison
- Italian: comparativo — degree of comparison
- Japanese: 比較級 (hikakukyū) — degree of comparison
- Korean: 비교급 (bigyogeup) — degree of comparison
- Latin: gradus comparativus — degree of comparison
- Latin: comparativus — degree of comparison
- Latin: collatio secunda — degree of comparison
- Lithuanian: aukštesnysis laipsnis — degree of comparison
- Norman: compathatif — degree of comparison
- Old English: wiþmetendlīċ — degree of comparison
- Persian: صفت برتر (sefat-e bartar) — degree of comparison
- Polish: stopień wyższy — degree of comparison
- Portuguese: grau comparativo — degree of comparison
- Portuguese: comparativo — degree of comparison
- Russian: сравни́тельная сте́пень (sravnítelʹnaja stépenʹ) — degree of comparison
- Russian: компарати́в (komparatív) — degree of comparison
- Serbo-Croatian: ко̏мпаратӣв — degree of comparison
- Serbo-Croatian: kȍmparatīv — degree of comparison
- Slovak: komparatív — degree of comparison
- Slovak: druhý stupeň — degree of comparison
- Slovene: primérnik — degree of comparison
- Spanish: comparativo — degree of comparison
- Swedish: komparativ — degree of comparison
- Tagalog: pahambing — degree of comparison
- Ukrainian: ви́щий сту́пінь (výščyj stúpinʹ) — degree of comparison
- Vietnamese: cấp so sánh — degree of comparison
- Welsh: gradd gymharol — degree of comparison
- Catalan: comparatiu — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Czech: komparativ — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- French: comparatif — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- German: Komparativ — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Greek: συγκριτικός (sygkritikós) — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Indonesian: pembanding — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Italian: comparativo — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Norman: compathatif — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Norwegian: komparativ — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Persian: صفت برتر (sefat-e bartar) — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Polish: stopień wyższy — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Portuguese: comparativo — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Serbo-Croatian: ко̏мпаратӣв — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Serbo-Croatian: kȍmparatīv — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Slovak: komparatív — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Spanish: comparativo — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Swedish: komparativ — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
- Vietnamese: cấp so sánh — adjective or adverb in the comparative degree
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