Comparative vs Contemporary - What's the difference?
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Of or relating to comparison.
* Granvill
Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.
Approximated by comparison; relative.
* Whewell
* Bentley
(obsolete) Comparable; bearing comparison.
* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.137:
(grammar) A construction showing a relative quality, in English usually formed by adding more'' or appending ''-er''. For example, the comparative of ''green'' is ''greener''; of ''evil'', ''more evil .
(grammar) A word in the comparative form.
(obsolete) An equal; a rival; a compeer.
* Beaumont and Fletcher
(obsolete) One who makes comparisons; one who affects wit.
* .67:
From the same time period, coexistent in time.
* Cowley
* Strype
Modern, of the present age.
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Relatively recent
Someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.
Something existing at the same time.
As adjectives the difference between comparative and contemporary
is that comparative is of or relating to comparison while contemporary is from the same time period, coexistent in time.As nouns the difference between comparative and contemporary
is that comparative is (grammar) a construction showing a relative quality, in english usually formed by adding more'' or appending ''-er'' for example, the comparative of ''green'' is ''greener''; of ''evil'', ''more evil while contemporary is someone or something living at the same time, or of roughly the same age as another.comparative
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- The comparative faculty.
- comparative anatomy
- The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold.
- The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that encloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top.
- And need he had of slumber yet, for none / Had suffered more—his hardships were comparative / To those related in my grand-dad's Narrative .
Derived terms
* comparatively * * comparativeness * comparativism * comparativist * comparativisticNoun
(wikipedia comparative) (en noun)- Gerard ever was / His full comparative .
- Every beardless vain comparative .
See also
* contrastiveReferences
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English
Adjective
(en adjective)- A grove born with himself he sees, / And loves his old contemporary trees.
- This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe.
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Synonyms
* contemporaneousAntonyms
* anachronistic: in the wrong time period * archaicNoun
(contemporaries)- ''Cervantes was a contemporary of Shakespeare.
- ''The early mammals inherited the earth by surviving their saurian contemporaries .