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comparing and contrasting

comparing and contrasting is the present participle and gerund of compare and contrast.

Meaning of compare and contrast

Verb

compare and contrast (third-person singular simple present compares and contrasts, present participle comparing and contrasting, simple past and past participle compared and contrasted)

  1. (transitive) To assess both the similarities and the differences between two or more things.
    • Explain how to use a Venn diagram to compare and contrast information: […]2014 February 1, Garth Sundem, Biography Strategy Lesson--Compare and Contrast, Teacher Created Materials, →ISBN, page 18

Origin of comparing and contrasting

See the etymology of the corresponding lemma form.

Questions about comparing and contrasting

What is comparing and contrasting the present participle and gerund of?
Comparing and contrasting is the present participle and gerund of compare and contrast.

Words near comparing and contrasting in the dictionary

  1. compares notes
  2. comparest
  3. compareth
  4. comparibility
  5. comparing
  6. comparing and contrasting
  7. comparing and despairing
  8. comparing apples to apples
  9. comparing apples with apples
  10. comparing notes
  11. comparingly

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Adapted from Wiktionary: comparing and contrasting (page history and authors); compare and contrast (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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