- similar to somebody/something else and able to be compared
- A comparable house in the south of the city would cost twice as much.
- comparable to/with somebody/something The situation in the US is not directly comparable to that in the UK.
- Inflation is now at a rate comparable with that in other European countries.
- comparable in something The two machines are comparable in size.
Extra Examples- Its brain is closely comparable to the brain of a chimpanzee.
- No other country at that time had an organized public opinion remotely comparable to Britain's.
- The earthquake was comparable with others in recent years.
- The regional variation in Australian accent is not in any way comparable to that found in the UK or US.
- There are no other scanners even remotely comparable to this in terms of quality of image produced.
- a job comparable to mine
Oxford Collocations Dictionaryverbs- be
- become
- closely
- quite
- very
- …
- in
- to
- with
- …
- something comparable (to something)
- there is nothing comparable (to something)
Word Originlate Middle English: from Old French, from Latin comparabilis, from the verb comparare, from compar ‘like, equal’, from com- ‘with’ + par ‘equal’.
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