Antonym: absolute. Similar words: comparatively, comparative advantage, declarative, comparable, separatism, reparation, separation, reparations. Meaning: [kəm'pærətɪv] n. the comparative form of an adjective. adj. 1. relating to or based on or involving comparison 2. having significance only in relation to something else.
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91. It is proposed to investigate these relationships in historical context applying comparative and quantitative methods.
92. But since all faiths are imperfect, the question of the comparative merit of different religions does not arise.
93. The following week, on a gorgeous sunny day, I worked both in the sun and in comparative darkness.
94. In sum, the different comparative methods should be seen as complements to one another.
95. Comparative politics focuses on similarities and differences in political processes and structures.
96. Nevertheless an independent review emerged with a comparative analysis of a complex field.
97. It may be possible to apply all of these to groups who contrast in some way, so facilitating a comparative analysis.
98. New ideas can be bounced around in the comparative safety of the governors' meeting and reactions gauged.
99. The next set of problems concerns the nature of the comparative statics exercise implicit in the redistributive studies.
100. A trend had already been set in textiles, where the comparative advantage of cheap labour was becoming important.
101. Some techniques were employed to a lesser extent but still provide invaluable comparative results.
102. All stand to gain from such legislation and comparative employment law can be used to empower disabled people.
103. Well, it was a comparative review: there's better clip-art and more capable font handling among PagePlus's competitors.
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104. Inspection of the comparative figures is both instructive and startling.
105. The law of parallelism was a means of linking comparative embryology into the search for a unifying pattern in the organic world.
106. I enjoyed this comparative freedom and spent a lot of time pacing around the cell.
107. Just as they reached the top and comparative safety, Lilley yelled for everyone to bale out.
108. Should a leadership value ever be required for comparative purposes then use the value as 10.
109. Had she locked herself in a place of comparative safety?
110. In attempting to answer these questions, we will be examining some of the most important aspects of historical or comparative linguistics.
111. In comparative terms, Britain does not have particularly high levels of social spending.
112. In the nineteenth and for most of the twentieth century, the theory of comparative advantage explained what needed to be explained.
113. I do not want the comparative figures to be distorted.
114. Because of our comparative approach, we must regretfully bypass interesting problems within the individual countries.
115. All three countries represent a state of affairs that defies predominant theories in comparative politics.
116. The comparative figures one year later of 14% and 10.9% are still worrying.
117. A parochial orientation also implies the comparative absence of expectations of change initiated by the political system.
118. Pre-Darwinian comparative anatomists took the former view; since Darwin, the latter has prevailed.
119. But the early debates were conducted almost entirely in terms of comparative anatomy and paleontology.
120. This apparent two-minute discrepancy should not compromise his accuracy, since comparative measurements should not be made using different instruments.
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