Comparative
adjective
Used for comparing two things to show how they are different.
She's much better at math than me, by comparative standards.
Often appears as...
- comparative study
- comparative analysis
noun
A form of an adjective or adverb that is used to compare two things.
In the sentence 'She is taller than me', 'taller' is the comparative of 'tall'.
Often appears as...
- comparative form
- comparative degree
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A study or research done by comparing two things.
She's conducting a comparative of French and Spanish literacy rates.
Often appears as...
- comparative study
- comparative analysis
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Having the ability or function to compare.
His comparative abilities were truly remarkable, as he could analyze minute differences between things.
Often appears as...
- comparative analysis
- comparative examination
adjective
Used for comparing two things to show how they are different.
She's much better at math than me, by comparative standards.
Often appears as...
- comparative study
- comparative analysis
noun
A form of an adjective or adverb that is used to compare two things.
In the sentence 'She is taller than me', 'taller' is the comparative of 'tall'.
Often appears as...
- comparative form
- comparative degree
Usage tips
Academic
noun
A study or research done by comparing two things.
She's conducting a comparative of French and Spanish literacy rates.
Often appears as...
- comparative study
- comparative analysis
Usage tips
Academic
adjective
Having the ability or function to compare.
His comparative abilities were truly remarkable, as he could analyze minute differences between things.
Often appears as...
- comparative analysis
- comparative examination
Definition 1 of 4
Pro Tip 1/2Comparison Basis
Indicates the specific characteristic being used to show differences between two things.
On a comparative basis, the climate in California is drier than in Florida.
Pro Tip 2/2Softening Criticism
Used to express criticism in a less direct or softer manner.
Comparatively speaking, his performance is not on par with the rest of the team.
Pro Tip 1/2Comparison Basis
Indicates the specific characteristic being used to show differences between two things.
On a comparative basis, the climate in California is drier than in Florida.
Pro Tip 2/2Softening Criticism
Used to express criticism in a less direct or softer manner.
Comparatively speaking, his performance is not on par with the rest of the team.
Pro Tip 1/2Comparison Basis
Indicates the specific characteristic being used to show differences between two things.
On a comparative basis, the climate in California is drier than in Florida.
Pro Tip 2/2Softening Criticism
Used to express criticism in a less direct or softer manner.
Comparatively speaking, his performance is not on par with the rest of the team.
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How whales breathe,...
So I hope you've enjoyed that. That's what a comparative anatomist does for a living. We study the structure of these animals. We try to mimic it; we apply it back to the human situation, maybe making new technologies for protective devices or maybe even making new treatments for medicines for people's diseases who mimic these weird environments.
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How books can open your...
a more complete understanding of a topic. So I thought, well, if comparative reading works for research, why not do it in daily life too? So I started reading books in pairs. So they can be about people -- who are involved in the same event,
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Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...
expeditions and and using this rather primitive video technology you see there so so ed was out there or using video to record the birds behavior and study their evolution in a comparative way and this was like I said eight years ago
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Lessons we can learn...
important stories to tell but there's been comparatively less attention paid to veterans who have found personal or professional success or those who are charting a path toward it we were motivated by a landmark survey of post
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Making waves: The power...
Let's suspend the laws of physics for a moment, and pretend that your molecular self can plunge deep down into the water column. In these colder depths, the comparative lack of solar warmth makes water molecules sluggish,
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Filming Antarctica's...
vibrant so completely alien to our world there was actually very very little research out there on on antarctica comparatively to say going and filming in a in a tropical jungle but i found this
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Where did English come...
But comparative linguistics can help us by focusing on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary. For example, after the 6th century,
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The Blue Planet...
isolated seamounts like this one create a a seas where life can flourish in the comparatively empty expanses of the open ocean
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Best Of Oceans PIPE BBC...
isolated seamounts like this one create a a seas where life can flourish in the comparatively empty expanses of the open ocean
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Most Soothing Sir David...
Almost every female is carrying an infant, an indication that life is comparatively easy up here.
Video examples
How whales breathe,...
So I hope you've enjoyed that. That's what a comparative anatomist does for a living. We study the structure of these animals. We try to mimic it; we apply it back to the human situation, maybe making new technologies for protective devices or maybe even making new treatments for medicines for people's diseases who mimic these weird environments.
Video examples
How books can open your...
a more complete understanding of a topic. So I thought, well, if comparative reading works for research, why not do it in daily life too? So I started reading books in pairs. So they can be about people -- who are involved in the same event,
Video examples
Tim Laman & Ed Scholes:...
expeditions and and using this rather primitive video technology you see there so so ed was out there or using video to record the birds behavior and study their evolution in a comparative way and this was like I said eight years ago
Video examples
Lessons we can learn...
important stories to tell but there's been comparatively less attention paid to veterans who have found personal or professional success or those who are charting a path toward it we were motivated by a landmark survey of post
Video examples
Making waves: The power...
Let's suspend the laws of physics for a moment, and pretend that your molecular self can plunge deep down into the water column. In these colder depths, the comparative lack of solar warmth makes water molecules sluggish,
Video examples
Filming Antarctica's...
vibrant so completely alien to our world there was actually very very little research out there on on antarctica comparatively to say going and filming in a in a tropical jungle but i found this
Video examples
Where did English come...
But comparative linguistics can help us by focusing on grammatical structure, patterns of sound changes, and certain core vocabulary. For example, after the 6th century,
Video examples
The Blue Planet...
isolated seamounts like this one create a a seas where life can flourish in the comparatively empty expanses of the open ocean
Video examples
Best Of Oceans PIPE BBC...
isolated seamounts like this one create a a seas where life can flourish in the comparatively empty expanses of the open ocean
Video examples
Most Soothing Sir David...
Almost every female is carrying an infant, an indication that life is comparatively easy up here.
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Quote examples
Alan Huffman
American Author
Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.
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Blythe Masters
American Businesswoman
In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And yet back end processes - the amount of time you have to wait when you sell a stock before cash hits your account - can take days.
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Calvin Coolidge
American President
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Cory Booker
American Politician
I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.
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Mark Z. Jacobson
American Scientist
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.
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John Tyler Bonner
American Educator
As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.
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Ivor Novello
Welsh Musician
A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
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George Matthew Adams
American Editor
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
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George Edmund Street
English Architect
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
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Samuel Smiles
Scottish Author
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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Alan Huffman
American Author
Conflict photographers grapple with two worlds that are themselves often in conflict - the one where bombs fall and bullets fly, where adrenaline runs high, and the other, back home, which is comparatively secure, and where the big event of the day may involve selecting swatches of fabric for a new sofa.
Quote examples
Blythe Masters
American Businesswoman
In financial services, the front end of the world operates at super-high speeds: comparative advantages are measured in fractions of nanoseconds. And yet back end processes - the amount of time you have to wait when you sell a stock before cash hits your account - can take days.
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Calvin Coolidge
American President
Knowledge comes, but wisdom lingers. It may not be difficult to store up in the mind a vast quantity of facts within a comparatively short time, but the ability to form judgments requires the severe discipline of hard work and the tempering heat of experience and maturity.
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Cory Booker
American Politician
I'm going to have setbacks and failures; I'm not going to see change right away all of the time or most of the time. But everybody I've ever respected has failed at one thing or another. I've definitely fallen on my face. But I've also had a comparatively easy life.
Quote examples
Mark Z. Jacobson
American Scientist
Every dollar spent on nuclear is one less dollar spent on clean renewable energy and one more dollar spent on making the world a comparatively dirtier and a more dangerous place, because nuclear power and nuclear weapons go hand in hand.
Quote examples
John Tyler Bonner
American Educator
As in all of biology, comparative studies showing differences among species are often helpful for a better understanding of the basic mechanisms; with all its advantages, there is a danger of clinging exclusively to one model organism.
Quote examples
Ivor Novello
Welsh Musician
A couple of seats at a good picture house cost comparatively little but give a generous return in the shape of freshened minds and freedom from the worries that even the best regulated homes cannot always avoid.
Quote examples
George Matthew Adams
American Editor
Character is greater than talent, genius, fame, money, friends - there is nothing to compare with it. A man may have all these and yet remain comparatively useless - be unhappy - and die a bankrupt in soul.
Quote examples
George Edmund Street
English Architect
I think our failure in the production of good town churches of distinctive character must have struck you often, as it has me, when contrasted with our comparative success in country churches.
Quote examples
Samuel Smiles
Scottish Author
Progress however, of the best kind, is comparatively slow. Great results cannot be achieved at once; and we must be satisfied to advance in life as we walk, step by step.
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