Plural of comparison
regular plural
The plural of comparison is comparisons.
Forms of comparison
| Singular | comparison /kəmˈpæɹ.ɪ.sən/ |
|---|---|
| Plural | comparisons |
| Countable | countable and uncountable |
Comparisons in a sentence
- The machine gun is so much more lethal than the bow and arrow that comparisons are meaningless.2013 July 20, “Old soldiers?”, in The Economist, volume 408, number 8845
- One must take care in handling negative zero in comparisons.From the entry negative zero
- What we need is some kind of scorecard by which we can make objective comparisons between these products.From the entry scorecard
- They proceeded to make pairwise comparisons.From the entry pairwise
- We use broad geographic comparisons, mesocosm experiments and theory to address these questions.2026 January 30 (last accessed), Jonathan Shurin, UC San Diego School of Biological Sciences, archived from the original on 30 Jan 2026. From the entry mesocosm
Meaning of comparison
- noun The act of comparing or the state or process of being compared.
- noun An evaluation of the similarities and differences of one or more things relative to some other or each other.
- noun With a negation, the state of being similar or alike.
Questions about the plural of comparison
- What is the plural of comparison?
- The plural of comparison is comparisons.
- Is comparison countable?
- Comparison is a countable and uncountable noun.
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: comparison (page history and authors) and the entries of its forms. Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws left out forms marked obsolete, archaic, rare or dialectal and added the examples. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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