by comparison

Meaning

by comparison

When compared to something else; in comparison.
Synonyms: by contrast, in contrast

Source: en.wiktionary.org

Synonyms

in comparison additionally alternatively conversely alas anyhow although like across again already relative equivalent parallel qualified
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Antonyms

different saliently as indicated as demonstrated as had been shown as highlighted in
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Examples

Laughter is nothing else but sudden glory arising from some sudden conception of some eminency in ourselves, by comparison with the infirmity of others, or with our own formerly. Thomas Hobbes

Reality seems valueless by comparison with the dreams of fevered imaginations; reality is therefore abandoned. Émile Durkheim

Antiessentialist thinking forces us to view the world differently. We must accept shadings and continua as fundamental. We lose criteria for judgment by comparison to some ideal: short people, retarded people, people of other beliefs, colors, and religions are people of full status. Stephen Jay Gould

Undoubtedly, philosophers are in the right when they tell us that nothing is great or little otherwise than by comparison. Jonathan Swift

With film, you have very limited tools to convey subjectivity - voiceover, the camera's point of view, good acting - but even the very best actor in the world is crude by comparison with what you can do in a written paragraph. William Boyd

We all dream; we do not understand our dreams, yet we act as if nothing strange goes on in our sleep minds, strange at least by comparison with the logical, purposeful doings of our minds when we are awake. Erich Fromm

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by comparison

Close letter words and terms

by committing to memory by common consent by comparing by compulsion by computer by consequence