"absolute comparative" meaning in English

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  "lang_code": "en",
  "pos": "noun",
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          "ref": "1995, John W. M. Verhaar, Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin, page 255",
          "text": "In a large number of languages (Tok Pisin among them), however, absolute positives may function as absolute comparatives. Considerations such as these are needed to understand Tok Pisin degrees of comparison.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The use of a comparative to indicate a relatively high degree of some quality, without explicitly making a comparison, as in \"higher education\"."
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        [
          "degree",
          "degree"
        ],
        [
          "comparison",
          "comparison"
        ],
        [
          "higher education",
          "higher education#English"
        ]
      ],
      "raw_glosses": [
        "(grammar) The use of a comparative to indicate a relatively high degree of some quality, without explicitly making a comparison, as in \"higher education\"."
      ],
      "related": [
        {
          "word": "absolute superlative"
        }
      ],
      "topics": [
        "grammar",
        "human-sciences",
        "linguistics",
        "sciences"
      ]
    }
  ],
  "word": "absolute comparative"
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    {
      "form": "absolute comparatives",
      "tags": [
        "plural"
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  "pos": "noun",
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    {
      "word": "absolute superlative"
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          "ref": "1995, John W. M. Verhaar, Toward a Reference Grammar of Tok Pisin, page 255",
          "text": "In a large number of languages (Tok Pisin among them), however, absolute positives may function as absolute comparatives. Considerations such as these are needed to understand Tok Pisin degrees of comparison.",
          "type": "quotation"
        }
      ],
      "glosses": [
        "The use of a comparative to indicate a relatively high degree of some quality, without explicitly making a comparison, as in \"higher education\"."
      ],
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          "comparative"
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          "degree",
          "degree"
        ],
        [
          "comparison",
          "comparison"
        ],
        [
          "higher education",
          "higher education#English"
        ]
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        "(grammar) The use of a comparative to indicate a relatively high degree of some quality, without explicitly making a comparison, as in \"higher education\"."
      ],
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        "linguistics",
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