different between comparable vs congenial

English

Etymology

From Middle French comparable, from Latin compar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (UK) IPA^(key): /?k?mp(?)??bl?/, /k?m?pæ??bl?/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?k?mp(?)??bl?/, /k?m?pæ??bl?/
• (US, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /k?m?p???bl?/

Adjective

comparable (comparative more comparable, superlative most comparable)

1. (often with to) Able to be compared (to).

2. (often with to) Similar (to); like.
3. (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.

4. (grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.

Usage notes

The pronunciation /?k?mp(?)??bl?/ is not possible with sense 4.

Related terms

• comparability
• comparableness
• incomparable
• uncomparable
• non-comparable, noncomparable

Translations

Noun

comparable (plural comparables)

1. Something suitable for comparison.

Asturian

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Adjective

comparable (epicene, plural comparables)

1. comparable

Related terms

• comparar
• incomparable

Catalan

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.p???a.bl?/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.p???a.bl?/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.pa??a.ble/

Adjective

comparable (masculine and feminine plural comparables)

1. comparable

   Antonym: incomparable

Derived terms

• comparablement

Related terms

• comparar
• incomparable

Further reading

• “comparable” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.

French

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /k??.pa.?abl/

Adjective

comparable (plural comparables)

1. comparable (suitable to be compared)

Related terms

• comparabilité

Further reading

• “comparable” in Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

Galician

Alternative forms

• comparábel

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Adjective

comparable m or f (plural comparables)

1. comparable

Related terms

• comparar
• incomparábel / incomparable

Further reading

• “comparable” in Dicionario da Real Academia Galega, Royal Galician Academy.

Spanish

Etymology

From Latin compar?bilis.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kompa??able/, [kõm.pa??a.??le]

Adjective

comparable (plural comparables)

1. comparable

   Antonym: incomparable

Related terms

• comparar
• incomparable

Further reading

• “comparable” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.

English

Etymology

con- +? genial

Pronunciation

IPA^(key): /k?n?d??i?ni?l/

Adjective

congenial (comparative more congenial, superlative most congenial)

1. Having the same or very similar nature, personality, tastes, habits or interests.
   • 1855, Robert Browning, “Childe Roland to the Dark Tower Came”, XIX:

     No sluggish tide congenial to the glooms; / This, as it frothed by, might have been a bath / For the fiend's glowing hoof - to see the wrath / Of its black eddy bespate with flakes and spumes.

2. Friendly or sociable.

   The congenial bartender makes the Hog’s Head an inviting place to hang out during the weekends.

3. Suitable to one’s needs.
   • 1961, J. A. Philip, Mimesis in the Sophistês of Plato, in Proceedings and Transactions of the American Philological Association 92, page 453-468:

     What was it that made this notion of mimesis, in spite of its inherent difficulties that only the dialectical method enables him to avoid, seem so useful and congenial to Plato?

Antonyms

• uncongenial

Related terms

Translations

Anagrams

• conga line