She wrote a ____ analysis of the two economic systems for her thesis.
CEFR Practice Quiz (Alternate)
We conducted a deep ____ analysis of the two competing economic systems.
Word Origin & History
Etymology tree
Proto-Indo-European *ḱe?
Proto-Indo-European *ḱóm
Proto-Italic *kom
Proto-Italic *kom-
Latin con-
Latin pār
Latin compār
Proto-Indo-European *-h₂
Proto-Indo-European *-éh₂
Proto-Indo-European *-yéti
Proto-Indo-European *-eh₂yéti
Proto-Italic *-āō
Latin -ō
Latin comparō
Proto-Indo-European *-wós
Proto-Indo-European *-iHwósder.
Latin īvus
Latin comparātīvusbor.
Old French comparatifbor.
Middle English comparatif
English comparative
From Middle English comparatif, from Middle French comparatif, from Latin comparātīvus, equivalent to comparātus, from comparāre (“to compare”) + -ive, from Latin -īvus.
Literary Quotations & Historical Citations
"that kind of animals that have the comparative faculty, by which they compare things together, deliberate and resolve."
— 1773, James Burnett, Of the Origin and Progress of Language:
"After all, it is undeniable that the B.R. standard coach scored highly in comparative trials with other European railway vehicles on the Continent a few years ago, so that B.R. civil engineers must share responsibility for any defects in its behaviour over here."
— 1960 December, “Talking of Trains: The riding of B.R. coaches”, in Trains Illustrated, pages 705–706:
"The Olympics, the weather and a comparative lack of heavyweight clashes so far this season have been cited as reasons for the drop in viewers."
— 2016 October 24, Owen Gibson, “Is the unthinkable happening – are people finally switching the football off?”, in The Guardian, London:
"The recurrence of comparative warmth and cold."
— 1837, William Whewell, History of the Inductive Sciences:
"This bubble, […] by reason of its comparative levity to the fluid that encloses it, would necessarily ascend to the top."
— 1692, Richard Bentley, A Confutation of Atheism: