- of or relating to comparison.
- proceeding by, founded on, or using comparison as a method of study: comparative anatomy.
- estimated by comparison; not positive or absolute; relative: a comparative newcomer in politics; to live in comparative luxury.
- being, noting, or pertaining to the intermediate degree of the comparison of adjectives, as better and more beautiful, the comparative forms of good and beautiful, and of adverbs, as nearer and more carefully, the comparative forms of near and carefully.
- the comparative degree.
- a form in the comparative.
- denoting or involving comparison
- judged by comparison; relative
- denoting the form of an adjective that indicates that the quality denoted is possessed to a greater extent. In English the comparative form of an adjective is usually marked by the suffix -er or the word more
- the comparative form of an adjective
