comparatively

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English

Etymology

From comparative +‎ -ly.

Pronunciation

Adverb

comparatively (comparative more comparatively, superlative most comparatively)

  1. In a comparative manner.
    • 1886 October – 1887 January, H Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
      And yet I suppose that my life has been, comparatively speaking, a happy one.
    • 1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with "'Bradshaw"”, in Railway Magazine, page 253:
      Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently.
  2. When compared to other entities.

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