comparable

名词 n. 形容词 adj.
中文释义

英文释义

名词 n.
  1. Something suitable for comparison.
    — And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months.
形容词 adj.
  1. Able to be compared (to). often
    — An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
  2. Similar (to); like. often
    — 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.
  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.

词形变化

more comparable comparative most comparable superlative comparables plural

词汇关系

衍生词
biocomparable comparability comparable function comparableness comparable worth comparably incomparable intercomparable noncomparable uncomparable

词源

词源 1
From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.
词源 2
From Middle English comparable, from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis. By surface analysis, compare + -able.
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