Meaning & use
on par
Equal in quality, level, or amount to something else being compared.
See it in a sentence
The new phone's camera is finally on par with its main competitors.
Her second novel was not quite on par with her celebrated debut.
A note on using this word
Usually followed by 'with'; borrowed from golf, where par is the expected standard score for a hole.
Words with a similar meaning
equal tocomparable to
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Words with an opposite meaning
inferior to
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