Adjective: comptible
Comparison Forms
Synthetic
Perifrastic
| Comparative | more comptible |
| Superlative | most comptible |
Sample Sentences
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The Act of Indemnity, by which no Intrometters with Publick Money are comptible for Publick Money. [1671, James Dalrymple, “The Countess of Bramford and the Lady Forrester, contra Earl of Callendar, eodem die”, in The decisions of the Lords of Council & Session:]
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I am very comptible even to the least sinister usage. [c. 1601–1602 (date written), William Shakespeare, “Twelfe Night, or What You Will”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC, [Act I, scene v]:]
Adjectives inflected like comptible
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 compt + -ible.