Adjective

(en-adj)

Of the highest quality; splendid.

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*:A great bargain also had been the excellent Axminster carpet which covered the floor; as, again, the arm-chair in which Bunting now sat forward, staring into the dull, small fire.

Exceptionally good of its kind.

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Superior in kind or degree, irrespective of moral quality.

*(David Hume) (1711-1776)

*:an excellent hypocrite

*(Beaumont and Fletcher) (1603-1625)

*:Their sorrows are most excellent .

Adjective

(en adjective)

Of or relating to comparison.

* Granvill

The comparative faculty.

Using comparison as a method of study, or founded on something using it.

comparative anatomy

Approximated by comparison; relative.

* Whewell

The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold.

* Bentley

The bubble, by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that encloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top.

(obsolete) Comparable; bearing comparison.

* 1819 , Lord Byron, Don Juan , II.137:

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 .