Synonyms/Hypernyms (Ordered by Estimated Frequency) of noun comparative_degree

1 sense of comparative degree

Sense 1
comparative, comparative degree -- (the comparative form of an adjective or adverb; "`faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'"; "`less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'"; "`more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'")
       => adjective -- (a word that expresses an attribute of something)
       => adverb -- (a word that modifies something other than a noun)