What is "comparable" in English? Definition and Explanations

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What does comparable mean in English? Meaning of comparable definition and abbreviation with examples.

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What is "comparable" in English? Definition and Explanations

Meaning of "comparable": able to be compared or worthy of comparison

Adjective

  • Meaning: able to be compared or worthy of comparison
  • Synonyms: comparable
  • Antonyms: incomparable uncomparable
  • Similar: comparable to comparable with
  • Also see: equal parallel
  • Meaning of "comparable": conforming in every respect

    Adjective

  • Meaning: conforming in every respect
  • Example: boxes with corresponding dimensions the like period of the preceding year
  • Synonyms: comparable corresponding like
  • Similar: same
  • Adjective: (often with to) 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.(often with to) Similar (to); like. 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, American Scientist:  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.2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, American Scientist:  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.(mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order. Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.(grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form. "Big" is a comparable adjective, since it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; but "unique" is not comparable, except in disputed, but common, usage.
  • Synonyms:

    tantamount, commensurate, equal, proportionate, equivalent, commensurable, a match for, as good as, equipollent, equipotential, in a class with, on a par, akin, analogous, corresponding, related, agnate, alike, cognate, consonant, like, parallel, relative, uniform, undifferenced,

    Antonyms:

    incomparable, unworthy, dissimilar, unlike, different, unequal, unalike, alien, disconnected, unrelated, dissimilar, unlike, incomparable, unworthy, unequal, unalike,

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    comparable in English: comparable
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