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qualitative English

Learners of English as a second language usually know the word qualitative once they have reached the level C2 – Proficient. English words by learner level A1 A2 B1 B2 C1 C2

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What does qualitative mean?

Definitions in simple English

qualitative Adjective

— A reason, idea or writing is qualitative if it is about the way something is, or about the thing's qualities, but not about amounts. I have a qualitative idea of what his work is like, but I don't know how much work he's done. Qualitative differences between advertisements are likely to be far more important than quite large differences in the number of advertisements.

qualitative

— adjective involving distinctions based on qualities qualitative change qualitative data qualitative analysis determines the chemical constituents of a substance or mixture

— adjective relating to or involving comparisons based on qualities

Synonyms qualitative synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as qualitative?

qualitative English » English

usable

stability of a substance

nonquantitative

good

exploitable

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Both Carol and I are subject to the same atmospheric disturbances that may have affected other observers but there is a qualitative difference when you're a scientist.

We must never substitute qualitative events that are marked by similar properties and recurrences for fixed substances.

I find when Tobias and I work on projects together we tend to use a lot of qualitative terms that are entirely subjective.

But it's that there's really no way to describe the qualitative parts of a typeface without resorting to things are fully outside it.

Then how do you account for the stark, qualitative difference between your experience of the blackout and everyone else's?

Serial killing is a qualitative characteristic.

Apparently, a modern education doesn't cultivate qualitative spatial reasoning anymore, or a respect for musical theater.

We consider both qualitative and quantitative evidence, yes.

They used qualitative factors to affect scientific analysis.

And it's actually more qualitative than quantitative for us.

But as for the Supreme Court decision in Kelo, public benefit is determined on a quantitative, not qualitative basis.

People's lives, it's the qualitative total of their life, of what they've done in their life that should have some meaning.

The key insight from our qualitative research was that in a majority of cases the purchase of the product is conducted by the kids of the household.

We ran a quantitative and qualitative analysis on the sample from the lake.

In sum, according to qualitative analyses, Cartet remains the first choice of teachers.

There's a qualitative shift happening in the way we view the animal world, especially when it comes to apes.

News and current affairs

This suggests that preschool provides a qualitative boost to children's social skills or emotional development that enables them to take better advantage of economic opportunity later in life.

Moreover, admitting Turkey would demonstrate the EU's political consistency, while representing a qualitative step forward in the European project.

Mutational processes are far more complex than was thought a few decades ago; with strand slippage, duplication, transposition, and illegitimate recombination producing qualitative differences between closely-related genomes.

Its aim is qualitative disarmament, placing modest limits on technical improvements of nuclear arms.

Instead, qualitative applications of physics to chemistry and biology heighten interest and emphasize the connections.

The qualitative parallels are obvious: banks using off-balance loans to finance highly risky ventures, exotic new financial instruments, and excessive exuberance over the promise of new markets.

He is widely credited for setting the country's agenda, and for being the motor behind the liberal economic reforms that since 2004 have meant a qualitative leap in the Egyptian economy.

The Bank of Japan seems well on its way to delivering on the first one - embracing what it calls quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE).

If Japan does decide to scale down its defense forces in this respect, a bold and qualitative change is inevitable.

The BOJ has used a similar justification for its own policy of quantitative and qualitative easing (QQE).

The European Union, which is in the midst of a profound identity crisis, does not need new states, but rather new ideas and a new narrative - a qualitative, not quantitative, change.