Synonym: relatively. Similar words: relatively, negatively, creatively, tentatively, alternatively, comparable, actively, compulsively. Meaning: [kəm'pærətɪvlɪ] adv. in a relative manner; by comparison to something else.
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121. Comparatively few sophisticated clients will touch licensed dealers with a bargepole.
122. You can freeze it, but it will start to go rancid after a comparatively short storage period of three months.
123. A comparatively new variety, Bandit, also impressed with yielding ability.
124. A reasonable question might be, why is the safety record so comparatively good?
125. Even the reliance of companies on the stock market to raise finance is comparatively small.
126. However, you should notice, from column 5[http://sentencedict.com], that retail banks hold comparatively large quantities of treasury and commercial bills.
127. Similarly, comparatively few chantries were re-established by pious benefactors, and endowments for masses failed to recover to their pre-Reformation level.
128. Granulomata themselves were comparatively infrequent, and other histological features characteristic of Crohn's disease were less conspicuous than usual.
129. Policy analysis needs to be concerned with a flow of interrelated policies, with abrupt changes of direction a comparatively rare occurrence.
130. Therefore this apparent reduction in their rate of occurrence is a reflection of the comparatively shorter period of monitoring during the procedure.
131. M42 itself is comparatively young, probably not more than 30000 years old.
132. Study and research into pre-Romanesque architecture is still comparatively recent and more is being found out each decade.
133. The time-scale ranged from the very short-term to the comparatively long-term: from daily to yearly, with many intermediate steps.
134. The Building Notice procedure is a comparatively new system and does not require the submission of any detailed plans.
135. There were trees all round the Ezbekiya, most of them comparatively young.
136. Comparatively, Northridge came through almost untarnished, and Los Angeles emerged shaken but hardly slammed.
137. In all countries, children of high birth order have comparatively poor survival chances.
138. It is more difficult to understand the senseless vandalism that goes on in comparatively affluent areas.
139. The events of 1909-11 have been given comparatively lengthy attention.
140. After a glittering military career, Des is ready for what will be a comparatively unexciting civilian life.
141. The extremes, on both parameters, are comparatively rare; most of us occupy a position part-way along each.
142. With value-added tax, and the other charges made when something is bought and sold, things are comparatively easy.
143. A comparatively rare plant, Acorus is propagated with difficulty but it is a very decorative plant when used in aquariums.
144. It is only comparatively recently that the scale and significance of the Sterkfontein deposits have begun to be fully appreciated.
145. Consequently, on reaching the surface they have a comparatively low residual pressure and explosive activity is very limited.
146. For a repetitive task there may be comparatively little going on in the mind which emerges at the level of consciousness.
147. Metamorphosen is comparatively prosaic and suffers from a slightly top-heavy balance which gives undue prominence to the leader.
148. Railway workers in both countries have had to work exceedingly long hours even for these comparatively modest rewards.
149. The Faculty in those days was comparatively small, and still dominated by old men who were primarily literary historians.
150. Because of this our extremely complex mechanisms become comparatively simple to organize.
More similar words: relatively, negatively, creatively, tentatively, alternatively, comparable, actively, compulsively, positively, effectively, collectively, respectively, retroactively, separation, reparation, preparation, imperative, lucrative, narrative, pejorative, cooperative, decorative, administrative, compare, comparison, lively, compartment, by comparison, separate, apparatus.