compared to

idiom

variants or compared with

: in relation to (something else) : measured or judged against (something else)

I'm a slob compared to my roommate.

This rain is nothing compared to what we got yesterday.

Today's quiz was easy compared with the last one.

Examples of compared to in a Sentence

Recent Examples on the Web

In Salesforce’s Cyber Week results, the company found the average selling price over the Thanksgiving selling weekend was up 6% compared to the year-ago period. —Melissa Repko,gabrielle Fonrouge, CNBC, 16 Dec. 2025

The Netflix Christmas oeuvre expanded in 2019 with this charming teen ensemble rom-com, a relatively understated entry in the streamer's catalog (compared to, say, the very sparkly musical Dolly Parton's Christmas on the Square). —Mary Sollosi, Entertainment Weekly, 15 Dec. 2025

Polling released Monday by CNN showed that the percentage of people who believe the country is on the wrong economic track jumped to 56%, a 13-point increase compared to January. —Christian Datoc, The Washington Examiner, 15 Dec. 2025

For example, software can improve the performance of Nvidia’s five-year-old A100 chip by two to three times compared to its initial version. —Jason Ma, Fortune, 15 Dec. 2025

Rhymes for compared to

• hullabaloo
• accrue
• ado
• ainu
• aircrew
• airscrew
• anew
• askew
• baboo
• babu
• bamboo
• beaucoup