beyond comparison


Also, without comparison or beyond compare. Too superior to be compared, unrivaled, as in This view of the mountains is beyond comparison, or That bakery is without comparison. The first term, more common today than the much older variants, was first recorded in 1871. Without comparison goes back to 1340, and without compare to 1621.

Words Nearby beyond comparison

The American Heritage® Idioms Dictionary Copyright © 2002, 2001, 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company. Published by Houghton Mifflin Harcourt Publishing Company.

How to use beyond comparison in a sentence

  • But even with our limited and early information, the January 12, 2010 quake seems beyond comparison.

    Haiti in Crisis | Mark Leon Goldberg | January 13, 2010 | THE DAILY BEAST
  • Nowhere else but in wealthy England do God's creatures die of starvation, wanting food, while others are rich beyond comparison.

    Landholding In England | Joseph Fisher
  • I knew her for my equal mentally; in so many things she was beyond comparison cleverer than I; her courage outwent mine.

    The New Machiavelli | Herbert George Wells
  • If he had no suspicion of 319 us he must be, beyond comparison, the greatest ass that I had ever fallen in with.

  • Were there any fraud, the Baron said, his own loss would be beyond comparison more considerable than Beethovens.

  • If such a woman chanced also to be beautiful beyond comparison with her less favored sisters, the conclusion was inescapable.

    A Pagan of the Hills | Charles Neville Buck