Nominal Forms
Infinitive: to compare
Participle: compared
Gerund: comparing
Cognates
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Indicative
Present
| I | compare |
| you | compare |
| he;she;it | compares |
| we | compare |
| you | compare |
| they | compare |
Perfect
| I | have compared |
| you | have compared |
| he;she;it | has compared |
| we | have compared |
| you | have compared |
| they | have compared |
Past
| I | compared |
| you | compared |
| he;she;it | compared |
| we | compared |
| you | compared |
| they | compared |
Pluperfect
| I | had compared |
| you | had compared |
| he;she;it | had compared |
| we | had compared |
| you | had compared |
| they | had compared |
Future
| I | will compare |
| you | will compare |
| he;she;it | will compare |
| we | will compare |
| you | will compare |
| they | will compare |
Future Perfect
| I | will have compared |
| you | will have compared |
| he;she;it | will have compared |
| we | will have compared |
| you | will have compared |
| they | will have compared |
Subjunctive
Present
| I | compare |
| you | compare |
| he;she;it | compare |
| we | compare |
| you | compare |
| they | compare |
Perfect
| I | have compared |
| you | have compared |
| he;she;it | have compared |
| we | have compared |
| you | have compared |
| they | have compared |
Imperfect
| I | compared |
| you | compared |
| he;she;it | compared |
| we | compared |
| you | compared |
| they | compared |
Pluperfect
| I | had compared |
| you | had compared |
| he;she;it | had compared |
| we | had compared |
| you | had compared |
| they | had compared |
Conditional
Present
| I | would compare |
| you | would compare |
| he;she;it | would compare |
| we | would compare |
| you | would compare |
| they | would compare |
Perfect
| I | would have compared |
| you | would have compared |
| he;she;it | would have compared |
| we | would have compared |
| you | would have compared |
| they | would have compared |
Imperative
| you | compare |
| we | Let's compare |
| you | compare |
Verbs conjugated like 'compare'
abacinate,
abalienate,
abase,
abate,
abbreviate,
abdicate,
abduce,
aberrate,
aberuncate,
abirritate,
abjudge,
abjudicate,
abjugate,
abjure,
ablactate,
ablaqueate,
able,
ablegate,
abligate,
abnegate, etc. (List truncated at 20 verbs)
Verbs similar to 'compare'
compane,
compart,
compere,
compact,
company,
compass,
compear,
compete,
compile,
compone,
Synonyms & Antonyms
Synonyms
- contrast
- liken, collate, differ, relate, balance
- match
- equate, resemble, associate, equal, confer, parallel
Antonyms
- contrast
- uniformity, similarity, likeness, sameness
Additional Information
Phrasal Verbs
Etymology
From Middle English comparen, from Old French comparer, from Latin comparare (“to prepare, procure”), from compar (“like or equal to another”), from com- + par (“equal”). Displaced native Old English metan (“to compare,” also “to measure”). See: Middle English '
comparen', Latin '
comparare'.
Verbs referencing "compare"
Finnish with old forms
komparoida.
Sample Sentences
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[...] it through all the passengers, and descending to the very stokers and furnacemen, who emerged from below, one by one, and clustered together in a smoky group about the hatchway of the engine-room, comparing notes in whispers. After throwing up a few rockets and firing signal guns in the hope of being hailed from the land, or at least of seeing a light—but without any other sight or sound presenting [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] tastes and desires it has engendered; the affectionate friendships to which it has given rise; the amount of vanity and prejudice it has dispelled. The golden calf they worship at Boston is a pigmy compared with the giant effigies set up in other parts of that vast counting-house which lies beyond the Atlantic; and the almighty dollar sinks into something comparatively insignificant, amidst a whole [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] be villages in Old England ), are as favourable specimens of rural America, as their people are of rural Americans. The well-trimmed lawns and green meadows of home are not there; and the grass, compared with our ornamental plots and pastures, is rank, and rough, and wild: but delicate slopes of land, gently-swelling hills, wooded valleys, and slender streams, abound. Every little colony of houses [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] came (according to custom ) round the carriage in which I sat; let down all the windows; thrust in their heads and shoulders; hooked themselves on conveniently, by their elbows; and fell to comparing notes on the subject of my personal appearance, with as much indifference as if I were a stuffed figure. I never gained so much uncompromising information with reference to my own nose and eyes, [...]
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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[...] where he supposed the Great Western (which left New York a week after us ) was now: and where he supposed the ‘Cunard ’ steam-packet was now: and what he thought of sailing vessels, as compared with steamships now: and so beset his life with pestilent attacks of that kind, that he too was obliged to affect despondency, for very peace and quietude.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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CHAPTER XVIII Miss Ophelia’s Experiences and Opinions Our friend Tom, in his own simple musings, often compared his more fortunate lot, in the bondage into which he was cast, with that of Joseph in Egypt; and, in fact, as time went on, and he developed more and more under the eye of his master, the strength [...]
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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I have made no reference to my reception, nor have I suffered it to influence me in what I have written; for, in either case, I should have offered but a sorry acknowledgment, compared with that I bear within my breast, towards those partial readers of my former books, across the Water, who met me with an open hand, and not with one that closed upon an iron muzzle.
(American Notes for General Circulation)
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“ How in the world can the two things be compared ? ” said Miss Ophelia. “ The English laborer is not sold, traded, parted from his family, whipped. ”
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)
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[...] way like brutes, had sunk as nearly to their level as it was possible for human beings to do. To a late hour in the night the sound of the grinding was protracted; for the mills were few in number compared with the grinders, and the weary and feeble ones were driven back by the strong, and came on last in their turn.
(Uncle Tom’s Cabin)