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comparativist

comparativist is the alternative form of comparatist.

Meaning of comparatist

Noun

comparatist (plural comparatists)

  1. A person who carries out a comparative study, especially of language and literary works.

Forms of comparativist

pluralcomparativists

Origin of comparativist

From comparative + -ist.

Words formed from comparativist

Questions about comparativist

What is comparativist the alternative form of?
Comparativist is the alternative form of comparatist.

Words near comparativist in the dictionary

  1. comparative superlatives
  2. comparatively
  3. comparativeness
  4. comparatives
  5. comparativism
  6. comparativist
  7. comparativistic
  8. comparativistically
  9. comparativists
  10. comparativity
  11. comparator

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comparativist (page history and authors); comparatist (page history and authors). 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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