The buildings are small in comparison with the skyscrapers in New York.
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Comparison
//kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən//
Synonyms for "comparison" (133 found)
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Closest matches (27)
Strong matches (40)
Related words (66)
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Translations
176 translations across 69 languages.
Afrikaans
4 entries- trappe van vergelyking noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
- vergelykbaarheid noun (state of being similar or alike)
- vergelyking noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- vergelyking noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Albanian
1 entries- krahasim noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Ancient Greek
2 entries- σύγκρισις noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- σύγκρισις noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Arabic
4 entries- تَشْبِيه noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- مُقارَنة noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- مُقَابَلَة noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- مُقَارَنَة noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Armenian
1 entries- համեմատություն noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Azerbaijani
1 entries- müqayisə noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Belarusian
1 entries- параўна́нне noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Bengali
1 entries- তুলনা noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Bulgarian
4 entries- сравне́ние noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- сравне́ние noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- степенуване noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
- схо́дство noun (state of being similar or alike)
Burmese
1 entries- အနှိုင်း noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Catalan
2 entries- comparació noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- comparació noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Chinese Mandarin
1 entries- 比較 /比较 noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Czech
3 entries- porovnání noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- porovnání noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- stupňování noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Danish
2 entries- gradbøjning noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
- sammenligning noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Dutch
4 entries- gelijkenis noun (state of being similar or alike)
- trappen van vergelijking noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
- vergelijking noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- vergelijking noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Esperanto
1 entries- komparo noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Faroese
1 entries- stigbending noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Finnish
4 entries- komparaatio noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
- samankaltaisuus noun (state of being similar or alike)
- samanlaisuus noun (state of being similar or alike)
- vertailu noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
French
4 entries- comparaison noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- comparaison noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- comparaison noun (state of being similar or alike)
- degrés de comparaison noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Galician
2 entries- comparación noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- comparanza noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Georgian
1 entries- შედარება noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
German
4 entries- Abgleich noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- Abgleich noun (state of being similar or alike)
- Gegenüberstellung noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- Komparation noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Greek
2 entries- σύγκριση noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- σύγκριση noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Hebrew
3 entries- השוואה \ הַשְׁוָאָה noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- השוואה \ הַשְׁוָאָה noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- השוואה \ הַשְׁוָאָה noun (state of being similar or alike)
Hindi
1 entries- तुलना noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Hungarian
4 entries- fokozás noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
- hasonlóság noun (state of being similar or alike)
- összehasonlítás noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- összehasonlítás noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Icelandic
1 entries- stigbreyting noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Indonesian
2 entries- komparasi noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- perbandingan noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Ingrian
2 entries- rinnoitus noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- rinnoitus noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Irish
2 entries- comparáid noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- comparáid noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Italian
4 entries- comparazione noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- comparazione noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- confronto noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- paragone noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Japanese
1 entries- 比較 noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Kazakh
1 entries- салыстыру noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Khmer
2 entries- ប្រៀប noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- ពាក្យប្រៀប noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Korean
1 entries- 비교 noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Lao
1 entries- ການປຽບທຽບ noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Latin
1 entries- comparātiō noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Latvian
2 entries- salīdzinājums noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- salīdzināšana noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Lithuanian
2 entries- lyginimas noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- palyginimas noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Macedonian
3 entries- сли́чност noun (state of being similar or alike)
- спо́редба noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- споредба noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Malay
1 entries- perbandingan noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Malayalam
1 entries- താരതമ്യം noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Middle English
4 entries- comparisoun noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- comparisoun noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- comparisoun noun (state of being similar or alike)
- comparisoun noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Mongolian
1 entries- харьцуулалт noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Māori
2 entries- whakaritenga noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- whakatairitenga noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Navajo
1 entries- ałhąąh sinil noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Norman
3 entries- compathaison noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- compathaison noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- compathaison noun (state of being similar or alike)
Norwegian Bokmål
1 entries- sammenligning noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Old English
2 entries- wiþmetennes noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- wiþmetennes noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Persian
2 entries- تشبیه noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- مقایسه noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Polish
4 entries- gradacja noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
- klimaks noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
- porównanie noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- porównanie noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Portuguese
4 entries- comparação noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- comparação noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- comparação noun (state of being similar or alike)
- comparação noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Romanian
1 entries- comparație noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Russian
4 entries- сра́внивание noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- сравне́ние noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- сравне́ние noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- сте́пени сравне́ния noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Serbo-Croatian
4 entries- poređenje noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- poređenje noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- ȕsporedba noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- ȕsporedba noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Slovak
3 entries- porovnanie noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- porovnanie noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- stupňovanie noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Slovene
2 entries- primerjava noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- primerjava noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Spanish
4 entries- comparación noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- comparación noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- comparación noun (state of being similar or alike)
- comparanza noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Swedish
4 entries- jämförelse noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- jämförelse noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- komparation noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
- likhet noun (state of being similar or alike)
Tajik
1 entries- муқоиса noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Tamil
3 entries- ஒப்பீடு noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- ஒப்பீடு noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- ஒப்பு noun (state of being similar or alike)
Thai
1 entries- การเปรียบเทียบ noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Tibetan
4 entries- དཔེ་ཉེར་འཇལ noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- དཔེ་ཟླ noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- མཉམ་བསྡུར noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- ཚད་སྡུར noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Turkish
3 entries- karşılaştırma noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- mukayese noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- salıştırma noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Ukrainian
3 entries- порі́вняння noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- порі́вняння noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- ступе́ні порі́вняння noun (ability of adjectives and adverbs to form three degrees)
Urdu
4 entries- اَنْدَازَہ noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- اَنْدَازَہ noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
- مُوَازَنَہ noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
- مُوَازَنَہ noun (evaluation of the similarities and differences of two (or more) things)
Uzbek
1 entries- muqoyasa noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Vietnamese
1 entries- sự so sánh noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Walloon
1 entries- rimetaedje noun (act of comparing or the state of being compared)
Sample sentences
20 total sentences available.
In comparison with this, that is far better.
Source: tatoeba (56053)
This furniture is superior beyond comparison.
Source: tatoeba (60130)
This is superior beyond comparison.
Source: tatoeba (60526)
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