Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • In a manner or degree worthy to be compared, or of equal regard.

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  • adverb In a comparable manner

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  • adverb in a comparable manner or to a comparable degree

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Examples

  • This is a particular problem for Americans, who work between 100 and 350 more hours each year than workers in comparably wealthy countries.

    Sharing The Pain Of Layoffs Means Losing Fewer Jobs The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • This is a particular problem for Americans, who work between 100 and 350 more hours each year than workers in comparably wealthy countries.

    Sharing The Pain Of Layoffs Means Losing Fewer Jobs The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • This is a particular problem for Americans, who work between 100 and 350 more hours each year than workers in comparably wealthy countries.

    Sharing The Pain Of Layoffs Means Losing Fewer Jobs The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • This is a particular problem for Americans, who work between 100 and 350 more hours each year than workers in comparably wealthy countries.

    Sharing The Pain Of Layoffs Means Losing Fewer Jobs The Huffington Post News Team 2010

  • Why then is Apple, a company that has shown that they know how to make efficient packaging, sending ultra-tiny parts in comparably large boxes?

    Apple's Uses Ultra-Large Boxes To Replace Ultra-Compact USB Power Chargers - The Consumerist 2009

  • That is, among the American upper middle classes, those who are religiously observant are more likely to report friendship and social interaction with people on welfare or manual workers than comparably placed secular Americans.

    American Grace Robert D. Putnam 2010

  • While news sites, social networks and even e-commerce websites allow for real-time, multimedia interactions, traditional online matchmakers are comparably low-tech, more like virtual singles bars where daters wander around wearing boards listing their key characteristics: age, height, an aversion to poodles.

    Online Dating Startups Drive Matchmaking Makeover Amy Lee 2011

  • Her bright, brilliant soprano voice is as good as you'll hear anywhere, and Angelica-Lee Aspiras is comparably impressive as Lady Thiang.

    A 'King' That Is Full of Aces Terry Teachout 2011

  • With a win over Manchester City, the comparably tiny-payroll Spurs would claw within two points of first place—an epic development for a club that hasn't won a league title since 1961.

    The London Clubs Aren't Dead Yet Matthew Futterman 2012

  • A few of the highlights included a gorgeously nuanced 2009 Terre Alte, a Fruiliano-Bianco-Sauvignon blend from Livio Felluga that put me in mind of a first-rate Chablis and admittedly it was comparably priced, around $70 a bottle.

    The World's Best Food Wines Lettie Teague 2011

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