comparable.
Able to be compared (to).
Meaning & usage
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.
Similar (to); like.
Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
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.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.
Something suitable for comparison.
Where this word comes from
From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.
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