transcription, транскрипция: [ kəmpærətɪv ]
( comparatives)
1.
You use comparative to show that you are judging something against a previous or different situation. For example, comparative calm is a situation which is calmer than before or calmer than the situation in other places.
...those who manage to reach the comparative safety of Fendel...
The task was accomplished with comparative ease.
= relative
ADJ : ADJ n
• com‧para‧tive‧ly
...a comparatively small nation.
...children who find it comparatively easy to make and keep friends.
ADV : ADV adj / adv
2.
A comparative study is a study that involves the comparison of two or more things of the same kind.
...a comparative study of the dietary practices of people from various regions of India.
...a professor of English and comparative literature.
ADJ : ADJ n
3.
In grammar, the comparative form of an adjective or adverb shows that something has more of a quality than something else has. For example, ‘bigger’ is the comparative form of ‘big’, and ‘more quickly’ is the comparative form of ‘quickly’. Compare superlative .
ADJ : ADJ n
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Comparative is also a noun.
The comparative of ‘pretty’ is ‘prettier’.
N-COUNT : oft the N