compatible

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.

• (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpæt.ə.bəl/, [km̩ˈpæt.ə.bl̩]

  • Audio (Southern England):

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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.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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
• compatibility

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, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “compatible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

compatible (epicene, plural compatibles)

1. compatible (capable of easy interaction)

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kum.pəˈtib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kom.pəˈtib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kom.paˈti.ble]

compatible m or f (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, 2024
• “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/

• Audio:

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compatible (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

   Antonym: incompatible

• compatibilité

• → Portuguese: compatível

• “compatible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

• compatíbel

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

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)

• IPA^(key): /kompaˈtible/ [kõm.paˈt̪i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: com‧pa‧ti‧ble

compatible m or f (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)

1. compatible

   Antonym: incompatible

• “compatible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28