compatible

Capable of working together without conflict.

Adjective

  1. Capable of working together without conflict.
    • 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. - 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1,...

    Synonyms: compliant congruent in step commensurate compatible conformable conformant congruous consistent in line proportionate uniform

Origin

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.

Forms

more compatible most compatible

Antonyms

incompatible noncompatible

Hyponyms

autocompatible backward compatible backward-compatible backwards-compatible backwards compatible binary-compatible biocompatible bug compatible C++-compatible C#-compatible COBOL-compatible compatibilise compatibilism compatibilist compatibilization compatibilize compatibleness compatibly cross-compatible cytobiocompatible cytocompatible FORTRAN-compatible Fortran-compatible forward compatible

Related

compassion compatibility

Noun

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

Forms

compatibles