English-German translations for comparable

• fragwürdig
• graduierbar
• komparabel
• komparierbar
• steigerbar
• vergleichbar
  Sie sind vom Ausmaß her nicht vergleichbar. They are not comparable in scale.
  Sein Pro-Kopf-Einkommen ist vergleichbar mit dem Spaniens. Its per capita income is comparable to Spain.
  Wir müssen wirklich aufhören zu vergleichen, was nicht vergleichbar ist. So, let us stop comparing things which are not comparable.
• vergleichbar steigerbar

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