Wordnet 3.0
ADVERB (1)
1.
in a relative manner;
by comparison to something else;
- Example: "the situation is relatively calm now"[syn: relatively, comparatively]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Comparatively \Com*par"a*tive*ly\, adv.
According to estimate made by comparison; relatively; not
positively or absolutely.
[1913 Webster]
With but comparatively few exceptions. --Prescott.
[1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
comparatively
adv 1: in a relative manner; by comparison to something else;
"the situation is relatively calm now" [syn:
relatively, comparatively]