compatible
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English
[edit]Etymology
[edit]from Middle French compatible, from Medieval Latin compatibilis (“in compatibile beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from Late Latin compator (“to suffer with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.
Pronunciation
[edit]- (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA(key): /kəmˈpæt.ə.bəl/, [km̩ˈpæt.ə.bl̩]
Audio (Southern England): (file)
Adjective
[edit]compatible (comparative more compatible, superlative most compatible)
- Capable of easy interaction.
- This printer isn't compatible with my computer.
- Able to get along well.
- My neighbours and I are not very compatible: they're loud and I'm an introvert.
- Consistent; congruous.
- His actions were compatible with his sermons.
- 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:
- She was like a Beardsley Salome, he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.
Antonyms
[edit]Hyponyms
[edit]- autocompatible
- backward compatible
- backward-compatible
- backwards compatible
- backwards-compatible
- binary-compatible
- biocompatible
- C++-compatible
- C#-compatible
- COBOL-compatible
- compatibilise
- compatibilism
- compatibilist
- compatibilization
- compatibilize
- compatibleness
- compatibly
- cross-compatible
- cytobiocompatible
- cytocompatible
- Fortran-compatible
- FORTRAN-compatible
- forward compatible
- forwards compatible
- genocompatible
- haemocompatible
- hemocompatible
- histocompatible
- IBM-compatible
- immunocompatible
- intercompatible
- JSF-compatible
- JSP-compatible
- JSX-compatible
- metrically compatible
- metric-compatible
- osteocompatible
- PC-compatible
- self-compatible
- serocompatible
- signature-compatible
- uncompatible
- upward compatible
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[edit]Translations
[edit]capable of easy interaction
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able to get along well
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consistent; congruous
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Noun
[edit]compatible (plural compatibles)
- Something that is compatible with something else.
- a computer company that sells IBM compatibles
Further reading
[edit]- “compatible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
- “compatible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.
Asturian
[edit]Adjective
[edit]compatible (epicene, plural compatibles)
- compatible (capable of easy interaction)
Catalan
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): (Central) [kum.pəˈtib.blə]
- IPA(key): (Balearic) [kom.pəˈtib.blə]
- IPA(key): (Valencia) [kom.paˈti.ble]
Adjective
[edit]compatible m or f (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)
- compatible
- Antonym: incompatible
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “compatible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
- “compatible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
- “compatible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
- “compatible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.
French
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]compatible (plural compatibles)
- compatible
- Antonym: incompatible
Derived terms
[edit]Descendants
[edit]- → Portuguese: compatível
Further reading
[edit]- “compatible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.
Galician
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Adjective
[edit]compatible m or f (plural compatibles)
Middle French
[edit]Adjective
[edit]compatible m or f (plural compatibles)
References
[edit]- Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l’ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IXe au XVe siècle (1881) (compatible, supplement)
Spanish
[edit]Pronunciation
[edit]Adjective
[edit]compatible m or f (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)
- compatible
- Antonym: incompatible
Derived terms
[edit]Further reading
[edit]- “compatible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10
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