Comparative Definition

kəm-părə-tĭv
adjective
That compares; involving comparison as a method, esp. in a branch of study.
Comparative linguistics.
Webster's New World
Of or relating to the scientific or historical comparison of different phenomena, institutions, or objects, such as languages, legal systems, or anatomical structures, in an effort to understand their origins or relationships.
American Heritage
Estimated by comparison with something else; relative.
A comparative success.
Webster's New World
Designating or of the second degree of comparison of adjectives and adverbs; expressing a greater degree of a quality or attribute than that expressed in the positive degree.
Webster's New World
Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.
Comparative anatomy.
Wiktionary
Synonyms:
Antonyms:
noun
A rival.
Webster's New World
The comparative degree.
Webster's New World
A word or form in this degree.
Webster's New World

(grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.

Wiktionary
Synonyms:

Other Word Forms of Comparative

Noun

Singular:
comparative
Plural:
comparatives

Origin of Comparative

  • From Middle French comparatif, from Latin comparativus, equivalent to comparatus, from comparare (“to compare”) + -ive, from Latin -ivus.

    From Wiktionary

Comparative Sentence Examples

  • For the next seven or eight years he lived in comparative privacy.

  • The American engineer is more fortunately situated than his English brother with regard to the possibility of a solution, as will be seen from the comparative diagrams of construction gauges, figs.

  • That chapter of comparative anatomy (together with other anatomical details, for which see the separate articles) is now dealt with in the article Skull; here only the most avine features are alluded to, and since some of Parker's original illustrations have been retained, the description has been shortened considerably.

  • The result is a comparative table of likes and dislikes.

  • But the new study of comparative religion has something to teach us even here.

More Sentences

Related Articles

Find Similar Words

Find similar words to comparative using the buttons below.

Words Starting With

CCOCOM

Words Ending With

EVEIVE

Unscrambles

comparative

Words Starting With C and Ending With E

Starts With C & Ends With EStarts With CO & Ends With EStarts With C & Ends With VE

Word Length

11 Letter Words11 Letter Words Starting With C11 Letter Words Ending With E