COMPARATIVELY

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does comparatively mean? 

• COMPARATIVELY (adverb)
  The adverb COMPARATIVELY has 1 sense:

1. in a relative manner; by comparison to something else

  Familiarity information: COMPARATIVELY used as an adverb is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMPARATIVELY (adverb)

Sense 1

Meaning:

In a relative manner; by comparison to something else

Synonyms:

comparatively; relatively

Context example:

the situation is relatively calm now

Pertainym:

comparative (estimated by comparison; not absolute or complete)

 Context examples 

The Thirty Mile River was comparatively coated with ice, and they covered in one day going out what had taken them ten days coming in.

(The Call of the Wild, by Jack London)

They were all locked, as I had expected, and the locks were comparatively new; but I went down the stone stairs to the hall where I had entered originally.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

She was comparatively dry, but she was numb with the cold.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

It is no distance—comparatively speaking; and though consideration is due to the kindness of your proposal, I assure you that is a mere matter of form.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Shut my eyes as I would, these last words of his succeeded in making the way, which had seemed blocked up, comparatively clear.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

Both pinnacle and cliff were comparatively low—some five or six hundred feet, I should think.

(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

He had comparatively no advantages at first.

(Martin Eden, by Jack London)

For example, secondary craters are comparatively rounder than pit chains, which are more irregular.

(Dawn Explores Ceres' Interior Evolution, NASA)

Of darkest color; producing or reflecting comparatively little light and having no predominant hue; being the color of coal or carbon.

(Black, NCI Thesaurus)

Of comparatively great physical weight or density.

(Heavy, NCI Thesaurus)