comparable

About 16.17 uses per million words.

Meaning

1. adjective Able to be compared (to).

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

2. adjective Similar (to); like.
3. adjective Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.

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

4. adjective 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.

5. noun Something suitable for comparison.

Similar words

same corresponding like comparable to comparative comparison similar equivalent matching tantamount

Often followed by

to with in worth data results figures size and

Word family

comparableness comparablenesses