comparatively

Adverb

1. In a comparative manner.
   • And yet I suppose that my life has been, comparatively speaking, a happy one. - 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of Adventure, London: Longmans, Green, and Co., published 1887, →OCLC:
   • Railway grouping had caused some peculiarly Scottish phraseology to disappear, though the note "Stops on timous notice to the guard" survived until comparatively recently. - 1956 April, K. H. Rudolph, “Fun with...
2. When compared to other entities.
   • Never did I see a more dreary and depressing scene. Miles on miles of quagmire, varied only by bright green strips of comparatively solid ground[.] - 1886 October – 1887 January, H[enry] Rider Haggard, She: A History of...
   • In freewayless areas like the Northwest, traffic jams are comparatively fewer – encouraged by the lack of a highway, more people have been riding buses. - 2019 February 7, Richard F. Weingroff, “The D.C. Freeway Revolt...