compareable

Adjective

comparable (comparative more comparable, superlative most comparable)

1. (often) Able to be compared (to).
   • An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
2. (often) Similar (to); like.
   • 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
3. 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. 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.

   Synonyms:

   gradable

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