English-French translations for comparable

• comparable
  Elles ne sont pas comparables quant à leur ampleur. They are not comparable in scale.
  Son revenu par habitant est comparable à celui de l'Espagne. Its per capita income is comparable to Spain.
  Cessons donc de comparer ce qui n’est pas comparable. So, let us stop comparing things which are not comparable.

Definition of comparable

• Able to be compared (to
• Similar ; like
• Constituting a pair in a particular partial order
• Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form
• Something suitable for comparison

Examples

• An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus
• You cant say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable
• Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not
• Big" is a comparable adjective, since it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; but "unique" is not comparable, except in disputed, but common, usage

Related words

• comparably
• incomparable
• incomparably
• uncomparable