Uncomparable vs Incomparable - What's the difference?

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Incomparable is a related term of uncomparable.

As adjectives the difference between uncomparable and incomparable

is that uncomparable is not able to be compared; not comparable while incomparable is so much better than another as to be beyond comparison; matchless or unsurpassed.

uncomparable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

Not able to be compared; not comparable.

(grammar) That cannot take the three degrees of comparison; not comparable.

incomparable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)

So much better than another as to be beyond comparison; matchless or unsurpassed.

* , De Profundis , (1909), Robert Baldwin Ross, ed., page 112:

I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

(rare) Not able to be compared.

Usage notes

* Using (more)'' or ''(most)'' with ''incomparable , though often disapproved, is relatively common. Such uses may once have only been accepted for poetic effect, but are now widespread. * Despite its apparently absolute meaning, incomparable'' is often used as if there were degrees of incomparability, occurring with adverbs such as ''(so)'' and ''(very) .

Derived terms

* incomparability