comparing

verbexamine in contrast

verbliken, equate

Synonyms for comparing

verb examine in contrast

Antonyms for comparing

Word Origin & History

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."

Example Sentences for comparing

But we lose the perceptions before we are capable of methodizing or comparing them.

And she was comparing herself now with other people, other women.

He looked at the girl and then at Albine, as though he were comparing them one with the other.

This width is determined by Count Rumford from numerous experiments, and comparing all circumstances, to be four inches.

Let us leave off comparing this with that—we do not know enough to compare.

Comparing any mortal with Daniels would be heresy, wouldn't it?

There is a fallacy, too, in comparing unchangeable laws with a personal governor.

The judgment must also be requisitioned in comparing, estimating, generalizing, and applying.

And so comparing, she could not but find in the one a nobility, in the other a—a dreadfulness.

"I hope you are not comparing the two," said Dalton, angrily.

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