compare

compare is a 7-letter English word with 13 senses as transitive verb, intransitive verb, noun, and verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention. Face value is 13 in Scrabble and 16 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.

7 letters · Scrabble 13 · Words With Friends 16 · 13 senses

Definitions

1. transitive verb. To examine the character or qualities of, as of two or more persons or things, for the purpose of discovering their resemblances or differences; to bring into comparison; to regard with discriminating attention.
2. transitive verb. To represent as similar, for the purpose of illustration; to liken.
3. transitive verb. To inflect according to the degrees of comparison; to state positive, comparative, and superlative forms of; as, most adjectives of one syllable are compared by affixing "- er" and "-est" to the positive form; as, black, blacker, blackest; those of more than one syllable are usually compared by prefixing "more" and "most", or "less" and "least", to the positive; as, beautiful, more beautiful, most beautiful.
4. intransitive verb. To be like or equal; to admit, or be worthy of, comparison; as, his later work does not compare with his earlier.
5. intransitive verb. To vie; to assume a likeness or equality.
6. noun. Comparison.
7. noun. Illustration by comparison; simile.
8. transitive verb. To get; to procure; to obtain; to acquire
9. noun. qualities that are comparable

   "no comparison between the two books"

   "beyond compare"

   Synonyms: comparability, comparison, equivalence

10. verb. examine and note the similarities or differences of

    "John compared his haircut to his friend's"

    "We compared notes after we had both seen the movie"

11. verb. consider or describe as similar, equal, or analogous

    "We can compare the Han dynasty to the Romans"

    "You cannot equate success in financial matters with greed"

    Synonyms: equate, liken

12. verb. to form the comparative or superlative form on an adjective or adverb
13. verb. be comparable

    "This car does not compare with our line of Mercedes"

Synonyms

comparability, comparison, equivalence, equate, liken

Anagrams

Other playable words that use exactly the letters in compare:

compear

Common word forms

compared, comparer, compares, comparing

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