Usually means: Examining similarities and differences between.
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We found 32 dictionaries that define the word comparative:

General (24 matching dictionaries)
  1. comparative: Merriam-Webster.com
  2. comparative, the comparative: Oxford Learner's Dictionaries
  3. comparative: American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language
  4. comparative: Collins English Dictionary
  5. comparative: Vocabulary.com
  6. Comparative, comparative: Wordnik
  7. comparative: Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary
  8. comparative: Wiktionary
  9. comparative: Webster's New World College Dictionary, 4th Ed.
  10. comparative: The Wordsmyth English Dictionary-Thesaurus
  11. comparative: Infoplease Dictionary
  12. comparative: Dictionary.com
  13. comparative: Cambridge Essential American English Dictionary
  14. Comparative (disambiguation), Comparative: Wikipedia, the Free Encyclopedia
  15. Comparative: Online Plain Text English Dictionary
  16. comparative: Webster's Revised Unabridged, 1913 Edition
  17. comparative: Rhymezone
  18. Comparative: AllWords.com Multi-Lingual Dictionary
  19. comparative: Webster's 1828 Dictionary
  20. comparative: Free Dictionary
  21. comparative: Mnemonic Dictionary
  22. comparative: Dictionary/thesaurus

Art (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Shakespeare Glossary (No longer online)
  2. Comparative: Lexicon of Linguistics

Business (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Glossary of Legal Terms (No longer online)
  2. comparative: Legal dictionary

Computing (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comparative: Encyclopedia

Medicine (1 matching dictionary)
  1. comparative: Medical dictionary

Science (2 matching dictionaries)
  1. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)
  2. Dictionary of anthropology (No longer online)

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Definitions from Wiktionary (
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American English Definition British English Definition
adjective:  Of or relating to comparison.
adjective:  Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.
adjective:  Approximated by comparison; relative.
adjective:  (obsolete) Comparable; bearing comparison.
noun:  (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.
noun:  (grammar) A word in the comparative form.
noun:  (chiefly in the plural) Data used to make a comparison.
noun:  (obsolete) An equal; a rival; a compeer.
noun:  (obsolete) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.

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