{
    "term": "comparative",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "b2",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": 1,
            "definition": "measured or judged by how similar or different it is to something else",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "Then he was living in comparative comfort *(= compared with others or with his own life at a previous time)*."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The company is a comparative newcomer to the software market *(= other companies have been in business much longer)*."
                }
            ],
            "synonyms": "relative"
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 2,
            "definition": "connected with studying things to find out how similar or different they are",
            "cefr": "b2",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "a comparative study of the educational systems of two countries"
                },
                {
                    "text": "comparative linguistics"
                }
            ]
        },
        {
            "senseNumber": 3,
            "definition": "relating to adjectives or adverbs that express more in amount, degree or quality, for example better, worse, slower and more difficult",
            "labels": "(grammar)",
            "cefr": "a2",
            "examples": [],
            "topics": ["Language"]
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəmˈpærətɪv/",
                "audio": "co/comparative/comparative__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/kəmˈpærətɪv/",
                "audio": "co/comparative/comparative__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English (in sense (3)): from Latin comparativus, from comparare ‘to pair, match’, from compar ‘like, equal’, from com- ‘with’ + par ‘equal’."
}