Comparison

Noun

 * 1) The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared
 * 2) An evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things
 * 3) The state of being similar or alike
 * 4)  The ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees.

Adjectives for Comparison
vigorous; productive; challenging; odious;cost; metaphorical; insignificant; self-movited; curious; outworn; caustic; retrospective; classic; droll; poignant; dismaying; conscientious; direct; accurate; momentary; invidious; hateful; significant; unfavorable; brutal; strained; inevitable.

Verbs for Comparison
attempt—; bear—; belittle—; consider—; despair of—; despise—; disdain—; draw—; fail in—; flaunt—; illustrate—; institute—; invite—; judge—; lend to—; lose by—;place beyond—; ridicule—; scoff at—; stand—; subject to—; suffer by—; —brings out; —emphasizes; —measures; —parallels; —suggests.

Related terms
comparable; comparative; comparator; compare

Thesaurus
analogy, aping, approach, approximation, assimilation, backup, balance, balancing, change, changeling, closeness, commensurability, community, comparability, conformity, contrast, contrasting, copy, copying, correspondence, counterfeit, deputy, double, dummy, equal, equivalent, ersatz, exchange, fake, fill-in, ghost, ghostwriter, identity, imitation, juxtaposing, juxtaposition, kinship, likeness, likening, locum tenens, makeshift, match, metaphor, metonymy, mimicking, nearness, next best thing, parallelism, parity, personnel, phony, pinch hitter, proxy, relation, relationship, relief, replacement, representative, resemblance, reserves, ringer, sameness, second string, secondary, semblance, sign, similarity, simile, similitude, simulation, spares, stand-in, sub, substituent, substitute, substitution, succedaneum, superseder, supplanter, surrogate, symbol, synecdoche, third string, token, understudy, utility player, vicar, vice-president, vice-regent, weighing

Etymology
From comparaison, from  comparatio, from comparatus, the past participle of comparare 'to compare'.

Translations

 * Arabic: مقارنة, مقابلة
 * Azeri:
 * Bulgarian:
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 比較, 比较
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French: comparaison
 * German: ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:
 * Italian:


 * Japanese: 比較
 * Korean: 비교 (比較)
 * Latvian: salīdzināšana, salīdzinājums
 * Lithuanian: lyginimas
 * Polish: porównanie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian: (state);  (process)
 * Slovene: primerjava
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: jämförelse
 * Turkish: karşılaştırma, mukayese
 * Walloon: rimetaedje


 * Bulgarian:
 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German:, ,
 * Hebrew:
 * Hungarian:


 * Lithuanian: palyginimas
 * Polish: porównanie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Slovene: primerjava
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish: jämförelse


 * Bulgarian: сходство
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ,
 * French:
 * German:, Vergleichbarkeit
 * Hebrew:


 * Hungarian:
 * Polish: porównanie
 * Portuguese:
 * Russian:
 * Swedish: likhet


 * Czech:
 * Finnish:
 * French: degrés de comparaison (degrees of comparison)
 * Hungarian:


 * Polish: stopniowanie
 * Russian: степени сравнения (stépeni sravnénija) (degrees of comparison)
 * Swedish: komparation


 * : השוואה (hashvaa)
 * : perbandingan
 * : comparation


 * : همسنجی (Hamsanji)
 * : comparación
 * : jämförelse
 * : పోలిక (polika)
 * : పోలిక (polika)