comparative degree

The relative adjectives are those that cannot have the comparative degrees.

The comparative degree is expressed in the following ways:

To quote the preface "Every effort has been made to secure a comparative degree of uniformity in rendering the original words and phrases."

MORE, adj. The comparative degree of too much.

Comparative Degree:

Neuter gender comparative degree is the same as adjective comparative degree.

It is not to be confused with the comparative degree, a much more widely used paradigm used to signify heightening of adjectives and adverbs.

Treasury Board ministers have been informed of the year-over-year comparative degree of competition, fairness and openness in government procurement through annual contracting activity reports.

One notable factor was the comparative degree of rootlessness, geographically speaking, in the Australian population, as well as the migratory propensities around the continent.

Comparative degree of adjectives and adverbs (This section covers the analytical and synthetic forms and intensifiers.)

He does however give some idea of the source of his infima, which is a classical word, "lowest", of which the comparative degree is inferior, "lower."

A variety of different media systems, along with their comparative degrees of freedom and censorship, will be compared: authoritarian, liberal, communist, revolutionary and the media of developing states.

Comparative degree is expressed by plus or minus preceding the adjective and superlative degree by le plus or le minus.

The comparative degrees of cellular fragmentation and complexity, as determined by scanning and transmission electron microscopy, were found to coincide with changes in relative degrees of pathogenicity.

Comparative degree of adjectives formed with the particle po as in Eastern South Slavic ubav, poubav, Serbo-Croatian lep, lepši.

It's the greatest and grandest verse in the Bible--or in any literature--and the TRUEST, if there are comparative degrees of trueness.

With many indies astonishingly well capitalized and also offering a comparative degree of creative freedom, a new class of producers and directors is entering the world, with Sundance as their front gate.

The commonplace rules relating to comparative degrees and amounts ought to be taken in the most general possible form: for when so taken they are likely to be useful in a larger number of instances.

Moreover, there has been a tendency to drop the comparative degree in favor of the positive: resulting in two sets of Early, Middle and Late Stone Ages of quite different content and chronologies.

The suffix "-ña" can be translated as either the possessive pronouns his, hers or its in English, or a signification of greater comparative degree, similar to some uses of the English suffix "-er".

The traditional mobility of the horse and camel is diminished from earlier times, but the rise of the technical, a pickup truck fitted with an individual crew-served weapon, has brought a comparative degree of mobility and firepower to fighting organizations within Africa, both military and paramilitary.

After a careful description of the dorsal chord in its embryological development, he shows that a certain parallelism exists between the comparative degrees of development of the vertebral column in the different groups of fishes, and the phases of its embryonic development in the higher fishes.

Some initial observations that arose from this progress report included a first review of trends in research and development on these key research tools, including the comparative degree of public and private sector activity, the emergence of research collaborations, and the genes and the traits they express that are of interest to the research community.

Sometimes it is called sermo familiaris, "speech of the good families", sermo urbanus, "speech of the city" or rarely sermo nobilis, "noble speech", but mainly besides Latinitas it was Latine (adverb), "in good Latin", or Latinius (comparative degree of adjective), "good Latin."