Comparable

Comparable may refer to:

  • Comparability, in mathematics
  • Comparative, in grammar, a word that denotes the degree by which an entity has a property greater or less in extent than another

Famous quotes containing the word comparable:

    A woman’s asking for equality in the church would be comparable to a black person’s demanding equality in the Ku Klux Klan.
    Mary Daly (b. 1928)

    To relive the relationship between owner and slave we can consider how we treat our cars and dogs—a dog exercising a somewhat similar leverage on our mercies and an automobile being comparable in value to a slave in those days.
    Edward Hoagland (b. 1932)

    I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
    Margaret Fuller (1810–1850)