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compatible
Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English
The Collaborative International Dictionary
Compatible \Com*pat"i*ble\, a. [F., fr. LL.compatibilis, fr. L. compati. See Compassion.] Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with.
Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by
nature the most compatible.
--Broome.
Syn: Consistent; suitable; agreeable; accordant.
Douglas Harper's Etymology Dictionary
mid-15c., from Middle French compatible (15c.), from Medieval Latin compatibilis, from Late Latin compati (see compassion). Related: Compatibility.
Wiktionary
a. 1 Capable of easy interaction. 2 Able to get along well. 3 consistent; congruous. n. Something that is compatible with something else.
WordNet
adj. able to exist and perform in harmonious or agreeable combination; "a compatible married couple"; "her deeds were compatible with her ideology" [ant: incompatible]
having similar disposition and tastes; "a compatible married couple"; "with their many similar tastes, he found her a most sympathetic companion" [syn: sympathetic]
capable of being used with or connected to other devices or components without modification [ant: incompatible]
(of a couple) existing together harmoniously [syn: well-matched]
capable of forming a homogeneous mixture that neither separates nor is altered by chemical interaction
Usage examples of "compatible".
Now, with her promotion, she could concentrate more on hard news, which was more compatible with her immediate goal of becoming an evening anchorperson either here in Dallas or in some other major market, which she hoped would be a stepping-stone to a network position or a cable job that provided nationwide exposure.
Were I again to deliver a course of physiological lectures to qualified hearers, I should make the experimental demonstrations on living animals as few and far between as was compatible with duty.
I suggest you hold on to your questions until we move into cognitive psychology, as cognitive ideas are more compatible with the behavioristic approach than the ideas of the late Mr.
But neither were Heechee Ancestor-storage and our own gigabit net compatible at first.
Some critics assert that NGOs, since they are outside and often in conflict with state power, are compatible with and serve the neoliberal project of global capital.
The highest intellectual cultivation is perfectly compatible with the daily cares and toils of working-men.
Well, modern zoos put their animals in superficially compatible habitats so that the stupid ones might not even be aware of their confinement.
The uncomfortable truth is that the two beliefs are not factually compatible.
How is this compatible with that perfect immutability and simplicity which all true Theists ascribe to the Deity?
Naturally this led him to explain the characteristics of people born under those two signs, and which signs were compatible, and that his late wife had been born in the Year of the Horse.
He had forgotten whether that made the two of them compatible or incompatible, but since she had been run over by a combine harvester on their fifth anniversary they really had not had much opportunity to discover whether or not they were compatible in the long run.
And how there was clearly no escape,--no escape compatible with that clean-handed truth from which it was not possible for him to swerve.
Mr Grey was deterred, no doubt by certain high State purposes, from applying for the stewardship of the Chiltern Hundreds, and thereby releasing himself from his seat in Parliament, and enabling himself to perform, with a clear conscience, duties in a distant part of the world which he did not feel to be compatible with that seat.
Such an offence is compatible with uniform kindness and most affectionate consideration.
That lesson seems to me to be hardly compatible with continual improvement in the condition of the lower man.