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Comparative
COMPARATIVE, a.
1. Estimated by comparison; not positive or absolute. The comparative weight of a body, is that which is estimated by comparing it with the weight of another body. A body may be called heavy, when compared with a feather, which would be called light, when compared with iron. So of comparative good, or evil.
2. Having the power of comparing different things; as a comparative faculty.
3. In grammar, expressing more or less. The comparative degree of an adjective expresses a greater or less degree of a quantity, or quality, than the positive; as brighter, or more bright; smaller; finer; stronger; weaker.
Comparative anatomy, that branch of anatomy which treats of the anatomy of other animals than man, with a view to compare their structure with that of human beings, and thus to illustrate the animal functions, and particularly with reference to a more perfect knowledge of the functions of several parts of the human body.
COMPARATIVE, n. One who is equal or pretends to be an equal.
comparative appears in definitions for these words:
After Base Baseness Cheap Coarse Comparative Comparatively Comparison Consolation Estimate Finer Fluxion Happiness Hight Justify Late Latter Light More Much Near Nether Parenthesis Positively Proportion Proportionable Proportionably Proportional Proportionally Proportionate Proportionateness Quality Rate Strip Tall Than The Ulterior Wealthy Worse Zootomist Zootomy
After Base Baseness Cheap Coarse Comparative Comparatively Comparison Consolation Estimate Finer Fluxion Happiness Hight Justify Late Latter Light More Much Near Nether Parenthesis Positively Proportion Proportionable Proportionably Proportional Proportionally Proportionate Proportionateness Quality Rate Strip Tall Than The Ulterior Wealthy Worse Zootomist Zootomy
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