comparison
comparison is a 10-letter English word with 10 senses as noun and transitive verb in the JumbleFix dictionary. One common meaning is: The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate. Face value is 16 in Scrabble and 20 in Words With Friends. Use the entries below when you need a playable sense, a nearby word, or another arrangement of the same letters.
Definitions
- noun. The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate.
- noun. The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them.
- noun. That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude.
- noun. The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison.
- noun. A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel.
- noun. The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts.
- transitive verb. To compare.
- noun. the act of examining resemblances
"they made a comparison of noise levels"
"the fractions selected for comparison must require pupils to consider both numerator and denominator"
- noun. qualities that are comparable
"no comparison between the two books"
"beyond compare"
- noun. relation based on similarities and differences
Synonyms
comparing, comparability, compare, equivalence
Common word forms
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