Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Sensitive, or (in another view) tractable. See etymology.

from the GNU version of the Collaborative International Dictionary of English.

  • adjective obsolete Accountable; responsible; sensitive.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective obsolete accountable; responsible
  • adjective obsolete sensitive

Etymologies

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compt +‎ -ible

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Examples

  • This incomptability means that the 3GS I was Bout to buy for near $1000 with taxes would not be comptible with the official Chinese carrier (unicom); and equally the $500+++ for the Chinese version will not be compatible outside of china.

    I Quit The iPhone Michael Arrington 2005

  • Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very comptible, even to the least sinister usage.

    Twelfth Night; or, What You Will 2004

  • Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very comptible, even to the least sinister usage.

    Act I. Scene V. Twelfth-Night; or, What You Will 1914

  • One to be comptible with AT&T's Global System for Mobile Communications (GSM) network and another with Verizon's code division multiple access (CDMA) network.

    LOOPRumors 2010

  • Good beauties, let me sustain no scorn; I am very comptible, even to the least sinister usage.

    Twelfth Night; or What You Will 1601

  • But, that doesn't stop her from attempting to do the best of what she can at her job-she's young, outgoing and optimistic, direct and yet very delicate: "very comptible, even to the least sinister usage."

    Fashion World of SL 2008

  • But, that doesn't stop her from attempting to do the best of what she can at her job-she's young, outgoing and optimistic, direct and yet very delicate: "very comptible, even to the least sinister usage."

    World of SL 2008

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