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comparably
[ kom-per-uh-blee ]
adverb
- in a way that shows a resemblance or similarity; similarly:
The only real difference between the ovens came down to size; they performed comparably.
These sound much better than other comparably priced speakers.
- in a way that allows for or suggests a comparison:
Randomization allows researchers to comparably test different treatments in similar groups.
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- un·com·pa·ra·bly adverb
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Word History and Origins
Origin of comparably1
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Example Sentences
A third category of chemical weapon is comparably savage—the nerve-gas agents.
Jump forward some decades and the number of ebook designers is comparably small.
We cannot apprehend an object as sublime while we apprehend it as comparably, measurably, or finitely great.
Not comparably to your ladyship; you are the very Cynthia of the skies, and queen of stars.
Unlike the peoples of the great Asiatic and European folk-wanderings, they found no comparably developed peoples to bar their way.
The gentry society was, therefore, a comparably stable society with little upward social mobility but with some downward mobility.
There is nothing comparably interesting in me, he said; I have had my story, or at least I have missed my chance to have a story.
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