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

This time around, the Flagstaff builder outdoes itself on both fronts with a pop-up camping topper sized to a 1980 Mini 95 pickup, creating a camping truck that sizes comparably to a Japanese kei camper. —C.c. Weiss may 12, New Atlas, 12 May 2026

In two years, large language models have gone from barely passing medical licensing exams to performing comparably to physicians on complex clinical reasoning. —Alon Bergman, STAT, 11 May 2026

Mythos is not publicly available, but comparably cyber-capable Chinese open-source models will be soon, and hackers will be able to find any holes not plugged by then. —Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 8 May 2026

In fact, three students with no prior knowledge performed comparably to prediction markets — like the kind where tens of thousands of people have money on the line. —Christine Clark, San Diego Union-Tribune, 22 Apr. 2026

Word History

First Known Use

1565, in the meaning defined at sense 1

Rhymes for comparably

• incomparably