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comparative degree is a noun meaning "the comparative form of an adjective or adverb". It carries one recorded sense.
the comparative form of an adjective or adverb
“`faster' is the comparative of the adjective `fast'”
“`less famous' is the comparative degree of the adjective `famous'”
“`more surely' is the comparative of the adverb `surely'”
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for comparative degree come from Princeton University’s WordNet. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.