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compatible

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Scrabble points
18
Words With Friends
23
Letters
10
Pronunciation
/kəmˈpæt.ə.bəl/(US)
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/kəmˈpæt.ə.bəl/(US) · [km̩ˈpæt.ə.bl̩](US)

Definition of compatible

4 senses · 2 parts of speech · etymology included

adj

  1. Capable of easy interaction.
    “This printer isn't compatible with my computer.”
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adj

  1. Capable of easy interaction.
    “This printer isn't compatible with my computer.”
  2. Able to get along well.
    “My neighbours and I are not very compatible: they're loud and I'm an introvert.”
  3. Consistent; congruous.
    “His actions were compatible with his sermons.”
    “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.”

noun

  1. Something that is compatible with something else.
    “a computer company that sells IBM compatibles”

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Etymology

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.

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