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 Sidddiqui

Examples of comparably in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

The comparably sized city of Waterbury has a median household income of just $45,968. —Andrew Depietro, Forbes, 10 Sep. 2024

Although July’s gains were revised even lower and June’s were slashed by 61,000 to 118,000, August’s report came in comparably solid and stronger. —Alicia Wallace, CNN, 6 Sep. 2024

However, this slow-down happened much later in life than comparably sized (think shrew-to-rat sized) mammals alive today. —Paul Smaglik, Discover Magazine, 7 Aug. 2024

My own research suggests that other, less quantifiable, factors were comparably or more important than those dollars or, at the very least, vital complements to them. —Benn Steil, Foreign Affairs, 13 May 2022

Word History

First Known Use

1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1