comparably

adverb

com·​pa·​ra·​bly ˈkäm-p(ə-)rə-blē 

also kəm-ˈpa-rə-bəl, 

-ˈper-ə-

1

: in a comparable or similar way

The Great Recession ended in the summer of 2009. Since then, the U.S. economy has been growing, but most incomes have not grown comparably.

—David Frum

Other laptops in the same class were priced comparably …

—Hal Nieburg

2

: by comparison : in relation to what is being compared

… even the largest crowds, during the afternoon rush, were comparably smaller than a year before.

—Faiz Siddiqui

Examples of comparably in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

Trump, perhaps taking a page out of the Singaporean playbook, pays his top staff comparably well. —Robert Schmad, The Washington Examiner, 14 Nov. 2025

Growth in hardware shipments has been comparably muted. —Dylan Butts, CNBC, 11 Nov. 2025

Five days after blitzing Long Beach State by 32 points, San Diego State hosted an Idaho State team that was comparably mediocre in the computer metrics and won 73-57. —Mark Zeigler, San Diego Union-Tribune, 10 Nov. 2025

Smith said that the county, which has gone through years of budget tightening, is not OK with paying its workers below median rates, but has had to be selective in which positions to fund more comparably to similar counties. —Jake Goodrick, Sacbee.com, 31 Oct. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for comparably

• incomparably