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comparable

adj
/ˈkɒmpəɹəbəl/

Etymology

From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.

  1. derived from comparābilis
  2. derived from comparable
  3. inherited from comparable

Definitions

  1. Able to be compared (to).

    • An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
    • You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.
    • The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2."

  2. Similar (to)

    Similar (to); like.

    • Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

  3. Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.

    • Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
  4. ›+ 2 more definitions

    1. Having comparative and superlative forms.

      • "Big" is a comparable adjective because it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; "unique" and "amazing", in contrast, are not comparable adjectives.

    2. Something suitable for comparison.

      • And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months.

The neighborhood

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No curated loop yet for comparable. Loops are being traced one word at a time while the ingestion pipeline matures.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA