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QUALITATIVE

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Dictionary entry overview: What does qualitative mean?

• QUALITATIVE (adjective)
The adjective QUALITATIVE has 2 senses:

1. involving distinctions based on qualities
2. relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities

Familiarity information: QUALITATIVE used as an adjective is rare.

Dictionary entry details

• QUALITATIVE (adjective)

Sense 1

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Meaning:

Involving distinctions based on qualities

Context examples:

qualitative change / qualitative data / qualitative analysis determines the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture

Similar:

soft (using evidence not readily amenable to experimental verification or refutation)

Antonym:

quantitative (expressible as a quantity or relating to or susceptible of measurement)

Sense 2

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Meaning:

Relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities

Classified under:

Relational adjectives (pertainyms)

Pertainym:

qualitative analysis (the act of decomposing a substance into its constituent elements)

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