Word Meanings - BIGGER - Book Publishers vocabulary database

, compar. of Big.

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• COMPARATIVELY
  According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not positively or absolutely. With but comparatively few exceptions. Prescott.
• COMPARE
  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
• COMPARTMENT
  One of the sections into which the hold of a ship is divided by water-tight bulkheads. (more info) 1. One of the parts into which an inclosed portion of space is divided, as by partitions, or lines; as, the compartments of a cabinet, a house, or
• COMPARER
  One who compares.
• COMPARISON
  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. (more info) 1. The act of comparing; an examination of two or more
• COMPARTNER
  See COPARTNER
• COMPARATION
  A making ready; provision.
• COMPARABLE
  Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison. There is no blessing of life comparable to the enjoyment of a discreet and virtuous friend. Addison. -- Com"pa*ra*ble*ness, n. -- Com"pa*ra*bly, adv.
• COMPARATIVE
  Expressing a degree greater or less than the positive degree of the quality denoted by an adjective or adverb. The comparative degree is formed from the positive by the use of -er, more, or less; as, brighter, more bright, or less bright.
• COMPARTITION
  The act of dividing into parts or compartments; division; also, a division or compartment. Their temples . . . needed no compartitions. Sir H. Wotton.
• COMPART
  To divide; to mark out into parts or subdivisions. The crystal surface is comparted all In niches verged with rubies. Glover.
• COMPARATOR
  An instrument or machine for comparing anything to be measured with a standard measure; -- applied especially to a machine for comparing standards of length.
• COMPARATE
  One of two things compared together.
• INTERCOMPARISON
  Mutual comparison of corresponding parts.
• INCOMPARED
  Peerless; incomparable. Spenser.
• INCOMPARABLE
  Not comparable; admitting of no comparison with others; unapproachably eminent; without a peer or equal; matchless; peerless; transcendent. A merchant of incomparable wealth. Shak. A new hypothesis . . . which hath the incomparable Sir Isaac Newton