compatible

from Middle French compatible, from Medieval Latin compatibilis (“in compatible beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from Late Latin compati (“to suffer with”)

• (US, Canada) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpætəbəl/

compatible (comparative more compatible, superlative most compatible)

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.

   • 1922, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest‎:

     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.

• incompatible
• noncompatible

• compassion

compatible (plural compatibles)

1. Something that is compatible with something else.

   a computer company that sells IBM compatibles

• compatible in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, G. & C. Merriam, 1913.
• compatible in The Century Dictionary, New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911.

compatible (epicene, plural compatibles)

1. compatible (capable of easy interaction)

• (Balearic) IPA^(key): /kom.pəˈti.blə/
• (Central) IPA^(key): /kum.pəˈti.blə/
• (Valencian) IPA^(key): /kom.paˈti.ble/

compatible (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)

1. compatible

   Antonym: incompatible

• compatibilitat
• incompatible

• “compatible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “compatible” in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana.
• “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.

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pa.tibl/

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compatible (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

• incompatible

• compatibilité

• “compatible” in le Trésor de la langue française informatisé (The Digitized Treasury of the French Language).

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

• Godefroy, Frédéric, Dictionnaire de l'ancienne langue française et de tous ses dialectes du IX^e au XV^e siècle (1881) (compatible, supplement)

compatible (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

• incompatible

• compatibilidad

• “compatible” in Diccionario de la lengua española, Vigésima tercera edición, Real Academia Española, 2014.