Definitions
American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition
- adj. Admitting of comparison with another or others: "The satellite revolution is comparable to Gutenberg's invention of movable type” ( Irvin Molotsky).
- adj. Similar or equivalent: pianists of comparable ability.
Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia
- Capable of being compared.
- Worthy of comparison; being of equal regard; worthy to be ranked with.
Wiktionary
- adj. Able to be compared (to).
- adj. Similar (to); like.
- adj. mathematics Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
- adj. grammar Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.
- n. Something suitable for comparison
GNU Webster's 1913
- adj. Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison.
WordNet 3.0
- adj. able to be compared or worthy of comparison
- adj. conforming in every respect
Examples
“The first to his boss, Fred Fielding, on Feb. 3, 1984 denounced the notion of equal pay for comparable worth, saying It is difficult to exaggerate the perniciousness of the comparable worth theory.”
“When the late Canadian radio host Peter Gzowski had a competition to come up with a phrase comparable to “American as apple pie,” the winner was “As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances.””
“From there, they're going to look at other properties in the neighborhood that have sold, and use those as what we call comparable sales, to compare to the property, to say if the sale sold for X amount of dollars, what should the subject property sell for in the open markets?”
“KING: He wrote in his autobiography ten years ago he started dating you to escape cocaine which he described as comparable to jumping in a lake to avoid getting wet.”
“U.S. District Judge Denny Chin cited the unprecedented nature of the multibillion-dollar fraud as he sentenced Madoff to the maximum of 150 years in prison, a term comparable only to those given in the past to terrorists, traitors and the most violent criminals.”
“It was the largest employment decrease since the agency began keeping what it described as comparable figures in 1976.”
“Direct Equal Employment Opportunity Commission to compare pay scales in job categories held mostly by women or mostly by men, and then enforce wage control to equalize wages according to the feminists 'subjective definition of what they call comparable worth.”
“They have signs indicating rates of about 650 pesos which is considerably less expensive than staying in comparable places in Laredo.”
“The discrepancy between young women and men in comparable situations is not so noticeable in Washington, though it is otherwise the epitome of a city that attracts young women graduates, said James Chung, president of Reach Advisors, which issued the report analyzing three years of census data.”
“Casual-dining sales continue to slide. percentage changes from previous year in comparable-store sales and guest counts:”
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These user-created lists contain the word ‘comparable’.
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A-R-A Words
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big book gre
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My GRE Vocab
moniker, sobriquet, prerogative, aberration, aberrant, nuance, notorious, infamous, renown, allude, refer, content and 109 more...
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Personal Vocabulary List
All my favourite words that I come across!
veritable, incongruence, rigamorole, letcherous, revolting, repulsive, reputrid, rapatious, forays, guise, placate, paradigm and 1162 more...
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The Sog Collection
My big word list.
chaos, flaccid, empirical, flotsam, cacophony, grumble, assuage, awe, romance, mortality, coalesce, fortuitous and 3282 more...
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Basic English Vocabulary
Very basic words for ESL students.
a, abandon, ability, able, abortion, about, above, abroad, absence, absolute, absolutely, absorb and 4334 more...
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snickclunk's Words
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my dictionary
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oneasterism's words
Words that I like, that I don't use often enough, that are new to me, that friends and family have taught me, and so on.
lugubrious, reticent, eschelon, missive, penchant, copious, conspicuous, tranquil, redolent, asinine, inane, dilatory and 625 more...
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June18DF
sidestepped, query, cropping, determined, head-scratcher, comparable, advocacy, swifter, hiked, hamper, groan, albeit
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vocab set 1
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nopeskies.
hateable.
hubris, smegma, comparable, supposably, flank, deciduous, twaddle, impugn, precocious, cantankerous, aspic
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reinaronq's Words
schadenfreude, phantasmagoria, catalyst, ameliorate, smackover, cataclysm, masticate, destitution, comparable, disingenuous, ambulatory, charismatic and 29 more...
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ruzuzu From the examples:
“When the late Canadian radio host Peter Gzowski had a competition to come up with a phrase comparable to “American as apple pie,” the winner was “As Canadian as possible, under the circumstances.””
--Simon & Schuster: FLY FISHING WITH DARTH VADER
Aug 15, 2012