Results for comparative

Definitions of comparative:

part of speech: adverb

Comparatively.

part of speech: adjective

Not positive or absolute; estimated by comparison; having the power of comparing; in gram., an adjective inflected, expressing more or less.

part of speech: noun

In grammar, the second degree in the inflection of an adjective or adverb.

part of speech: adjective

Estimated by comparing with something else: not positive or absolute: ( gram.) expressing more.

Usage examples for comparative:

• Perhaps, too, she realized that, unless she pursued her inquiries among comparative strangers, she would learn nothing. "Concerning Sally", William John Hopkins

• Don't worry poor John with comparative acres- we are all looking at the twenty- acre field now. "Poor Relations", Compton Mackenzie

• On the second day of my illness, during an interval of comparative ease, I fell into recollections of my childhood, and at once I had that far, that forgotten past with me again as I had never previously had it. "Far Away and Long Ago", W. H. Hudson