Dictionary entry

Comparative

Pronunciation: /kəmˈparətɪv/

Pronunciation

/kəmˈparətɪv/

Myanmar Meaning

(adj) နှိုင်းယှဉ်လေ့လာသော။ သိသိသာသာ (ဖြစ်သော)။ ( ကဲ့သို့သော) သာလွန်အဆင့်ပြ(နာမ ဝသေသန၊ ကြိယာဝသေသန)။ ၉ ၂ (n) သာလွန်အဆင့်ပြ နာမဝသေသန၊ ကြိယာဝသေ သန။

Definition

comparative /kǝm'pærǝtÇv/ adj ၁။ ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္ေလ့လာေသာ။ comparative linguistics/religion ❍ a comparative study of the social systems of two countries. ၂။ သိသိသာသာ (ျဖစ္ေသာ)။ living in comparative comfort (eg compared with others, or with one's own life at an earlier period) ❍ In a poor country, owning a bicyle is a sign of comparative wealth. ၃။ ( grammar ) (better, worse, slower, more difficult ကဲ့သို႔ေသာ) သာလြန္အဆင့္ျပ(နာမ ဝိေသသန၊ ႀကိယာဝိေသသန)။ Compare POSITIVE ၉, SUPERLATIVE ၂ n ( grammar ) သာလြန္အဆင့္ျပ နာမဝိေသသန၊ ႀကိယာဝိေသ သန။ ‘Better’ is the comparative of ‘good’. ❏ comparatively adv ႏိႈင္းယွဥ္လွ်င္။ ယွဥ္ၾကည့္လွ်င္။ စာလွ်င္။ comparatively wealthy/small/good/old.

Examples

  1. We sailed into the comparative shelter of the harbour.
  2. We expected to win with comparative ease.
  3. A comparative analysis of a large number of studies