Adjective: comparable
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more comparable |
| Superlative | most comparable |
Sample Sentences
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An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
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You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.
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The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2." [1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:]
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As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them. [2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:]
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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”, in American Scientist:]
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Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
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"Big" is a comparable adjective because it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; "unique" and "amazing", in contrast, are not comparable adjectives.
Adjectives inflected like comparable
priest-ridden,
unreposed,
evadible,
dissentious,
dissentient,
unforesighted,
egocentrical,
unephemeral,
unennobling,
mensuralist,
flocculent,
unseductive,
whoopsy,
whooshy,
surrogate,
Nicodian,
unrepaired,
prismatoidal,
renorenal,
unseducible, etc. (List truncated at 20 adjectives)
Etymology
From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able. See: Latin Adjectives '
comparābilis'.