Definition of Comparable

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Definition of Comparable
	Comparable Capable of being compared; worthy of comparison. Related Definitions: Being, Capable, Compared, Comparison, Of, Worthy

Comparable Quotations

No occupation is so delightful to me as the culture of the earth, and no culture comparable to that of the garden.
Thomas Jefferson

The negative is comparable to the composer's score and the print to its performance. Each performance differs in subtle ways.
Ansel Adams

Women must pay for everything. They do get more glory than men for comparable feats, but, they also get more notoriety when they crash.
Amelia Earhart

Friends need not agree in everything or go always together, or have no comparable other friendships of the same intimacy.
George Santayana

With my academic achievement in high school I was accepted rather readily at Princeton and equally as fast at Yale, but my test scores were not comparable to that of my classmates. And that's been shown by statistics, there are reasons for that - there are cultural biases built into testing, and that was one of the motivations for the concept of affirmative action to try to balance out those effects.
Sonia Sotomayor

School divides life into two segments, which are increasingly of comparable length. As much as anything else, schooling implies custodial care for persons who are declared undesirable elsewhere by the simple fact that a school has been built to serve them.
Ivan Illich

I now know all the people worth knowing in America, and I find no intellect comparable to my own.
Margaret Fuller

And of all illumination which human reason can give, none is comparable to the discovery of what we are, our nature, our obligations, what happiness we are capable of, and what are the means of attaining it.
Adam Weishaupt

Thinking in its lower grades, is comparable to paper money, and in its higher forms it is a kind of poetry.
Henry Ellis

Without a Mayaguez, or something comparable that we don't see in the immediate future, there is probably no one thing the President can do to himself to turn this situation around.
Robert Teeter

Comparable Translations

comparable in French is comparable
comparable in German is vergleichbar
comparable in Spanish is comparable

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