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degree of comparison

noun

Definitions

  1. A form of an adjective that indicates a different degree of the attribute the adjective…

    A form of an adjective that indicates a different degree of the attribute the adjective denotes; like the positive, comparative and superlative forms.

    • The degrees of comparison of good are good (positive), better (comparative) and best (superlative).
    • The word red is an adjective, in the dogmatical or positive degree of comparison.
    • There are commonly reckoned three degrees of comparison, namely: the positive, comparative and superlative; though, strictly speaking, there are but two degrees, the positive being merely the state of the adjective itself.

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No curated loop yet for degree of comparison. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

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