Synonyms for comparing


Grammar : Verb
Spell : kuh m-pair
Phonetic Transcription : kəmˈpɛər

Top 10 synonyms for comparing Other synonyms for the word comparing

Définition of comparing

Origin :
  • late 14c., from Old French comparer (12c., Modern French comparer), from Late Latin comparare "to liken, to compare" (see comparison). Related: Compared; comparing. To compare notes is from 1708. Phrase without compare (attested from 1620s, but similar phrasing dates to 1530s) seems to be altered by folk etymology from compeer "rival."
  • verb examine in contrast
  • verb liken, equate
Example sentences :
  • But we lose the perceptions before we are capable of methodizing or comparing them.
  • Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
  • And she was comparing herself now with other people, other women.
  • Extract from : « A Spirit in Prison » by Robert Hichens
  • He looked at the girl and then at Albine, as though he were comparing them one with the other.
  • Extract from : « Abbe Mouret's Transgression » by Emile Zola
  • This width is determined by Count Rumford from numerous experiments, and comparing all circumstances, to be four inches.
  • Extract from : « The Cook and Housekeeper's Complete and Universal Dictionary; Including a System of Modern Cookery, in all Its Various Branches, » by Mary Eaton
  • Let us leave off comparing this with that—we do not know enough to compare.
  • Extract from : « Things as They Are » by Amy Wilson-Carmichael
  • Comparing any mortal with Daniels would be heresy, wouldn't it?
  • Extract from : « Thankful's Inheritance » by Joseph C. Lincoln
  • There is a fallacy, too, in comparing unchangeable laws with a personal governor.
  • Extract from : « Statesman » by Plato
  • The judgment must also be requisitioned in comparing, estimating, generalizing, and applying.
  • Extract from : « College Teaching » by Paul Klapper
  • And so comparing, she could not but find in the one a nobility, in the other a—a dreadfulness.
  • Extract from : « The Wild Geese » by Stanley John Weyman
  • "I hope you are not comparing the two," said Dalton, angrily.
  • Extract from : « The Daltons, Volume I (of II) » by Charles James Lever

Antonyms for comparing

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