Comparable

Quick meaning: Comparable is an adjective meaning (often with to) Able to be compared (to).

Meaning

(often with to) Able to be compared (to).

More Meanings

1. (often with to) Similar (to); like.
2. (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
3. (grammar, of an adjective) Having comparative and superlative forms.
4. Something suitable for comparison.

Example Sentences

An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.

Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.

You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.

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

Word Forms

• comparables

Synonyms for comparable

Depending on context, synonyms include gradable, corresponding, like, same.

Antonyms for comparable

Common opposites include incomparable, uncomparable.

Related Words

Related dictionary entries include same, corresponding, like, comparative, comparison, similar.

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