comment
UK/ˈkɒmɛnt/
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British/ˈkɔmɛnt/
comment noun: a spoken or written remark.
Noun
comment (countable and uncountable, plural comments)
- A spoken or written remark.
- I have no comment on that.
- Pay attention to the teacher's comments in the margin of your marked essay.
- The act of commenting.
- People bled to death like gentlemen in an operating room or expired without comment in an oxygen tent.1961 November 10, Joseph Heller, “The Soldier in White”, in Catch-22 […], New York, N.Y.: Simon and Schuster, →OCLC, page 168
- The part of a sentence that provides new information regarding the current theme.
- Synonyms:
- rheme
- A remark embedded in source code in such a way that it will be ignored by the compiler or interpreter, typically to help people to understand the code.
Verb
comment (third-person singular simple present comments, present participle commenting, simple past and past participle commented)
- To remark.
- “My Continental prominence is improving,” I commented dryly. ¶ Von Lindowe cut at a furze bush with his silver-mounted rattan. ¶ “Quite so,” he said as dryly, his hand at his mustache. “I may say if your intentions were known your life would not be worth a curse.”1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC
- "A fine man, that Dunwody, yonder," commented the young captain, as they parted, and as he turned to his prisoner. "We'll see him on in Washington some day. He is strengthening his forces now against Mr. Benton out there.[…]."1910, Emerson Hough, chapter I, in The Purchase Price: Or The Cause of Compromise, Indianapolis, Ind.: The Bobbs-Merrill Company, →OCLC
- To make remarks or notes; to express a view regarding.
- He commented about your proposal.
- The movie comments on race relations.
- To comment or remark on.
- […]who have expounded Scripture out of its Senses, and have so Commented the Laws thereof1677, Lancelot Addison, A Modest Plea for the Clergy
- To insert comments into (source code).
- I wish I'd commented this complicated algorithm back when I remembered how it worked.
- To comment out (code); to disable by converting into a comment.
comment meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Marathi and Urdu
comment in Hindi
- spoken remark
- टिप्पणी ṭippaṇī
comment in Tamil
- கருத்து, விமர்சனம், முன்னிகை, பின்னூட்டம், கருத்து கூறு, கருத்திடுக
comment in Marathi
- टिप्पणी, टिप्पणी करा, टिप्पणी करणे
comment in Urdu
- تبصرہ
More languagesFewer languages
- comment in Bengali
- মন্তব্য, ব্যাখ্যা, টীকা, টিপ্পনি
- comment in Telugu
- వ్యాఖ్య vyākhya, వ్యాఖ్యానించు vyākhyāniñcu
- comment in Malayalam
- പരാമർശിക്കുക parāmaṟśikkuka
- comment in Kannada
- ಹೇಳಿಕೆ, ಅಭಿಪ್ರಾಯ, ಟಿಪ್ಪಣಿ, ಟೀಕೆ
- comment in Gujarati
- કોમેન્ટ kŏmenṭ
- comment in Nepali
- टिप्पणी गर्नुहोस्, टिप्पणी गर्ने
- comment in Arabic
- تَعْلِيق taʕlīq, مَلْحُوظَة malḥūẓa, عَلَّقَ ʕallaqa
- comment in Indonesian
- komentar, mengomentari
- comment in Persian
- کامنت kâment
- comment in Thai
- คำติชม kam-dtì-chom, ติชม dtì-chom
- comment in Vietnamese
- lời phụ chú, lời chú thích, lời bình luận, bình luận
Examples of comment in a sentence
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.1907 August, Robert W[illiam] Chambers, chapter IX, in The Younger Set, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:
- Santorum, in a comment regarding Senator John McCain's repudiation of torture, stated, "He doesn't understand how enhanced interrogation works.2015 November 30, Shane O'Mara, Why Torture Doesn’t Work: The Neuroscience of Interrogation, Harvard University Press, →ISBN, page 12:
- I think Mamet always comments that commerce really comes down to just a confidence game2003 July 5, Pierre Salinger, ABC News, “Analysis: Top film choices”, in NPR_Saturday:
- As Cambridge historian Mervyn James commented, "silly quarrels escalated into battles in the streets."2009 Winter, John M. Kang, “Manliness and the Constitution”, in Harvard Journal of Law & Public Policy, volume 32, number 1, page 261:
Synonyms of comment
Forms of comment
| Noun | |
|---|---|
| plural | comments |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | comments |
| present participle | commenting |
| past participle | commented |
| past | commented |
Origin of comment
From Middle English coment, comment, from Old French coment (“commentary”), from Late Latin commentum (“comment, interpretation”), from Classical Latin commentum (“invention, fabrication”).
From Middle English commenten, comenten, from Latin commentārī (“to consider thoroughly, think over, discuss, write upon”).
Words formed from comment
- commentable
- commentary
- commentate
- commentator
- miscomment
- recomment
- undercommented
- commentize
- comment out
- uncomment
- block comment
- comment clause
- commentless
- comment section
- commentworthy
- conditional comment
- C-style comment
- fair comment
- fairy comment
- honest comment
- letter of comment
- metacomment
- no comment
- notice and comment
- public comment
- sidebar comment
- subcomment
Phrases with comment
Questions about comment
- What does comment mean?
- Comment means a spoken or written remark.
- What is comment in Hindi?
- Comment in Hindi is टिप्पणी (ṭippaṇī). See Comment meaning in Hindi.
- How do you use comment in a sentence?
- “A tight little craft,” was Austin’s invariable comment on the matron; and she looked it, always trim and trig and smooth of surface like a converted yacht cleared for action.
- What part of speech is comment?
- Comment can be a noun or a verb.
- How do you pronounce comment?
- Comment is pronounced /ˈkɒmɛnt/ (UK).
- What is the plural of comment?
- The plural of comment is comments.
Words near comment in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: comment (page history and authors); comment (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comment (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); comment (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); comment (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); പരാമർശിക്കുക (Malayalam) (page history and authors); comment (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors); કોમેન્ટ (Gujarati) (page history and authors); comment (Nepali, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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