adv
Meaning 1
In a comparative manner.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
Standard Lemma guide
comparatively
Definitions and examples are grouped by meaning. Pronunciation, history, word forms, translations, descendants, synonyms, antonyms, derived terms, and related words appear whenever the source provides them.
Sound
Pronunciation
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Received-Pronunciation: /kəmˈpæɹ.ə.tɪvli/
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General-American: /kəmˈpæɹ.ə.tɪvli/
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US: Mary-marry-merry Recorded audio is listed in the source snapshot.
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CMU ARPABET: K AH0 M P EH1 R AH0 T IH0 V L IY0 Digits mark lexical stress: 1 primary, 2 secondary, 0 unstressed.
adv
Meaning 2
When compared to other entities.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
No example sentence was provided for this meaning.
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: none provided
Antonyms: none provided
adverb
Meaning 3
in a relative manner; by comparison to something else
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
Examples
- the situation is relatively calm now
Meaning relationships
Synonyms: relatively
Antonyms: none provided
History
Etymology
Etymology tree Latin comparātīvusbor. Old French comparatifbor. Middle English comparatif English comparative Middle English -ly English -ly English comparatively From comparative + -ly.
Across languages
Translations
23 source translations are retained for this English entry.
- Armenian: համեմատաբար (hamematabar) — in a comparative manner
- Catalan: comparativament — in a comparative manner
- Dutch: relatief — in a comparative manner
- Dutch: betrekkelijk — in a comparative manner
- Galician: comparativamente — in a comparative manner
- German: vergleichsweise — in a comparative manner
- German: verhältnismäßig — in a comparative manner
- Greek: συγκριτικά (sygkritiká) — in a comparative manner
- Italian: relativamente — in a comparative manner
- Portuguese: comparativamente — in a comparative manner
- Russian: сравни́тельно (sravnítelʹno) — in a comparative manner
- Spanish: comparativamente — in a comparative manner
- Arabic: نِسْبِيّاً (nisbiyyan) — when compared to other entities
- Armenian: համեմատաբար (hamematabar) — when compared to other entities
- Catalan: comparativament — when compared to other entities
- Galician: comparativamente — when compared to other entities
- German: vergleichsweise — when compared to other entities
- German: verhältnismäßig — when compared to other entities
- Greek: συγκριτικά (sygkritiká) — when compared to other entities
- Portuguese: comparativamente — when compared to other entities
- Russian: сравни́тельно (sravnítelʹno) — when compared to other entities
- Spanish: comparativamente — when compared to other entities
- Ukrainian: порі́вняно (porívnjano) — when compared to other entities
Real reading context