Crossword-Solution: COMPARISON
Dictionary
| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Comparison | n. | The act of comparing; an examination of two or more objects with the view of discovering the resemblances or differences; relative estimate. |
| Comparison | n. | The state of being compared; a relative estimate; also, a state, quality, or relation, admitting of being compared; as, to bring a thing into comparison with another; there is no comparison between them. |
| Comparison | n. | That to which, or with which, a thing is compared, as being equal or like; illustration; similitude. |
| Comparison | n. | The modification, by inflection or otherwise, which the adjective and adverb undergo to denote degrees of quality or quantity; as, little, less, least, are examples of comparison. |
| Comparison | n. | A figure by which one person or thing is compared to another, or the two are considered with regard to some property or quality, which is common to them both; e.g., the lake sparkled like a jewel. |
| Comparison | n. | The faculty of the reflective group which is supposed to perceive resemblances and contrasts. |
| Comparison | v. t. | To compare. |
Anagrams
| Word | Anagrams | |
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| COMPARISON | anagram | PANICROOMS |
We have 34 clues for the answer “COMPARISON”
| Clue | Answers |
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| Run a __ (determine differences) | 1 answer |
| Ratio, essentially | 1 answer |
| *French analogy | 1 answer |
| Likening (italicized) | 1 answer |
| French parallel? | 1 answer |
| Kind of shopper | 1 answer |
| Likening. | 2 answers |
| KIND OF SHOPPING | 2 answers |
| alikeness | 4 answers |
| Metaphor | 9 answers |
| A MISLEADING SIMILARITY | 10 answers |
| BEARING A SIMILARITY TO HOUSES WHEN RECONSTRUCTING | 10 answers |
| analogy | 17 answers |
| BALANCING | 18 answers |
| simile | 30 answers |
| Juxtaposition | 35 answers |
| Allegory | 39 answers |
| similarity | 50 answers |
| resemblance | 55 answers |
| Foil | 57 answers |
| dissimilarity | 59 answers |
| contrast | 59 answers |
| Parallel | 63 answers |
| Semblance | 65 answers |
| Disparity | 66 answers |
| difference | 72 answers |
| Likeness | 72 answers |
| measurement | 75 answers |
| AFFINITY ___ | 75 answers |
| Investigation | 77 answers |
| Association | 80 answers |
| Distinction | 91 answers |
| Degree | 97 answers |
| Disagree-ment | 102 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
One who, or that which, eats.
Hint 2 anagram
AETER
Hint 3 another clue
greedy person
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Sentences with COMPARISON (5)
She seemed tall, but the pail was a small one, and the hedge diminutive; hence, making allowance for error by comparison with these, she could have been not above the height to be chosen by women as best.
All other scenes of earth—even that village of rural England, where happy infancy and stainless maidenhood seemed yet to be in her mother’s keeping, like garments put off long ago—were foreign to her, in comparison.
Even a double entry requires a character-by-character comparison to the original to meet the accuracy requirement.
And in truth, I am quite willing it should be known that the little I have hitherto learned is almost nothing in comparison with that of which I am ignorant, and to the knowledge of which I do not despair of being able to attain; for it is much the same with those who gradually discover truth in the sciences, as with those who when growing rich find less difficulty in making great acquisitions, than they formerly experienced when poor in making acquisitions of much smaller amount.
Nature seemed exquisitely at peace, in comparison with the tumultuous emotions she had gone through: she could faintly hear the ripple of the river and the occasional soft and ghostlike fall of a dead leaf from a tree.
Quotes with COMPARISON (3)
I love you,' Buttercup said. 'I know this must come as something of a surprise to you, since all I've ever done is scorn you and degrade you and taunt you, but I have loved you for several hours now, and every second, more. I thought an hour ago that I loved you more than any woman has ever loved a man, but a half hour after that I knew that what I felt before was nothing compared to what I felt then. But ten minutes after that, I understood that my previous love was a puddle…
Whereas I think: I’m lying here in a haystack... The tiny space I occupy is so infinitesimal in comparison with the rest of space, which I don’t occupy and which has no relation to me. And the period of time in which I’m fated to live is so insignificant beside the eternity in which I haven’t existed and won’t exist... And yet in this atom, this mathematical point, blood is circulating, a brain is working, desiring something... What chaos! What a farce!
A myth... is a metaphor for a mystery beyond human comprehension. It is a comparison that helps us understand, by analogy, some aspect of our mysterious selves. A myth, in this way of thinking, is not an untruth but a way of reaching a profound truth.
Where this answer appears
Appears in: LAT, Newsday, NYT, WSJ.
Used 7 times in crossword archives (1987–2017).