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Comparative degree   /kəmpˈɛrətɪv dɪgrˈi/   Listen
Comparative degree

noun
1.
The comparative form of an adjective or adverb.  Synonym: comparative.  "'less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective 'famous'" , "'more surely' is the comparative of the adverb 'surely'"






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"Comparative degree" Quotes from Famous Books



... letter. Clum, for climbed, Glossary. "In care of," misuse of c|o for. Coherence, of paragraph; how to gain in paragraph; illustrations of in paragraph; of sentence; of whole composition; words of. Colon. "Comma blunder". Comma. Common gender, defined, of nouns and pronouns. Comparative degree; misuse of, in reference to more than two things. Comparison, degrees of; irregular forms in; errors in; manner of comparing. Complected, for complexioned, Glossary. Complex sentence. Complimentary close, in letters. Compound nouns, explained; rules for forming plurals of. ...
— Practical Grammar and Composition • Thomas Wood

... remembered that, with Macaulay, the praise or blame is usually just and true; he is very rarely grossly unfair and wrong, as Carlyle so often is; and if Macaulay resorts too often to the superlative degree, he is usually entitled to use the comparative degree of the same adjective. ...
— Studies in Early Victorian Literature • Frederic Harrison

... Savannahs furnish our materia medica with a moderate number of narcotics and sedatives, and an abundant supply of tonics, astringents, aromatics and demulcents, while the list of anodynes, emetics and cathartics remains in a comparative degree incomplete— ...
— The Long Roll • Mary Johnston



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