compare

Examples

• All

• I was stressed beyond compare and everything just felt different.

• Do a little compare and contrast of the handwriting.

  Abandon (2002)

• After reading the title, the class reviewed the compare and contrast key words from the handout.

  Academic text (2013)

• Each student received a copy of the passage, the compare and contrast signal words handout, and the Venn diagram.

  Academic text (2013)

• In the intervention phase of the study, students used a compare-contrast package to support their comprehension of the science passages.

  Academic text (2013)

• Her achievements are beyond compare; no one else in the class has won as many awards.

• The view from the mountaintop was compare; I had never seen anything like it before.

Synonyms

C

comparison

vscompare

145 1.2

Being similar enough that you can judge how they differ

is often used to mean unequalled rather than to state a factual likeness

C

comparability

vscompare

1 5.8

How similar two or more things are so you can look at them together

serves to express that something is unequalled or matchless in common usage

C

commensurability

vscompare

9.9

When two things can be measured by the same scale so you can compare them

is broader and also used to mean unequalled rather than only same-scale measurability

Antonyms

I

incomparable

20 6.0

So good or special that nothing else matches it

U

unequaled

• US

4 6.2

Better than any other person or thing

Surface Forms

Etymology