comparativeとは

発音

• (General American) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛɹ.ə.tɪv/, /kəmˈpæɹ.ə.tɪv/
• (Received 発音) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpæɹ.ə.tɪv/
• ハイフネーション: com‧par‧a‧tive

形容詞

comparative (comparative more comparative, superlative most comparative)

1. Of or relating to comparison.
   • Granvill

     the comparative faculty

2. Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.

   comparative anatomy

3. Approximated by comparison; relative.
   • 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian‎^[1], London:

     The Olympics, the weather and a comparative lack of heavyweight clashes so far this season have been cited as reasons for the drop in viewers.

   • Whewell

     The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold.

   • Bentley

     The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that encloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top.

4. (obsolete) Comparable; bearing comparison.
   • 1819, Lord Byron, Don Juan, II.137:

     And need he had of slumber yet, for none / Had suffered more—his hardships were comparative / To those related in my grand-dad's Narrative.

派生語

• comparatively
• comparative method
• comparativeness
• comparativism
• comparativist
• comparativistic

名詞

comparative (複数形 comparatives)

1. (grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more or appending -er. For example, the comparative of green is greener; of evil, more evil.
2. (grammar) A word in the comparative form.
3. (obsolete) An equal; a rival; a compeer.
   • Beaumont and Fletcher

     Gerard ever was / His full comparative.

4. (obsolete) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
   • William Shakespeare, Henry IV, Pt. 1 (1597), III.ii.67:

     Every beardless vain comparative.

同意語

• (grammar: degree): comparative degree

関連する語

• absolute, absolute superlative, relative superlative, comparative superlative
• degrees of comparison
• superlative

参考

• contrastive

参照

• “comparative” in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 4th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin, 2000, ISBN 978-0-395-82517-4.
• “comparative” in Dictionary.com Unabridged, Dictionary.com, LLC, 1995–present.
• "comparative" in WordNet 2.0, Princeton University, 2003.

Latin

形容詞

comparātīve

1. vocative masculine singular of comparātīvus

参照

• comparative in Charlton T. Lewis and Charles Short (1879) A Latin Dictionary, Oxford: Clarendon Press