comparatively

adv
/kəmˈpæɹ.ə.tɪvli/UK/kəmˈpæɹ.ə.tɪvli/US

Etymology

From comparative + -ly.

  1. derived from -īvus
  2. derived from comparātīvus
  3. derived from comparatif
  4. inherited from comparatif
  5. formed as comparatively — “comparative + -ly

Definitions

  1. In a comparative manner.

    • And yet I suppose that my life has been, comparatively speaking, a happy one.
    • Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.
  2. When compared to other entities.

    • Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground[.]
    • In freewayless areas like the Northwest, traffic jams are comparatively fewer – encouraged by the lack of a highway, more people have been riding buses.

The neighborhood

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at comparatively. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at comparatively. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

8 hops · closes at comparatively

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA