compatible

English

Etymology

from (deprecated template usage) [etyl] Middle French compatible, from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  compatibilis (“in compatible beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from (deprecated template usage) [etyl]  compati (“to suffer with”)

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kəmˈpætəbəl/

Adjective

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^[1]:

     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.

Antonyms

• incompatible
• noncompatible

Hyponyms

• backward-compatible
• backwards-compatible
• C#-compatible
• C++-compatible
• COBOL-compatible
• compatibility
• FORTRAN-compatible
• Fortran-compatible
• JSF-compatible
• JSP-compatible
• JSX-compatible
• signature-compatible

 

Related terms

• compassion

Translations

capable of easy interaction

• Asturian: compatible
• Bulgarian: съвместим (bg) (sǎvmestim)
• Catalan: compatible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: slučitelný, kompatibilní
• Dutch: verenigbaar (nl)
• Finnish: yhteensopiva (fi)
• French: compatible (fr)
• Galician: compatible (gl), compatíbel (gl)
• German: austauschbar, fähig (de), kompatibel (de), verträglich (de), vereinbar (de)
• Maori: hototahi (refers specifically to computing)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kompatibel (no)

  Nynorsk: kompatibel

• Polish: kompatybilny, zgodny (pl) m
• Portuguese: compatível (pt)
• Romanian: compatibil (ro) m
• Russian: совмести́мый (ru) (sovmestímyj), сочета́емый (ru) (sočetájemyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: kompatibilan (sh) m
• Spanish: compatible
• Tagalog: magkasundo, magkahiyang
• Turkish: bağdaşan, bağdaşır, uyumlu (tr)
• Vietnamese: tương thích, tương hợp (vi)

able to get along well

• Bulgarian: съвместим (bg) (sǎvmestim)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: verenigbaar (nl)
• Finnish: toimeen tuleva (fi), yhteen sopiva
• French: compatible (fr)
• Galician: compatíbel (gl) m or f
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• German: kompatibel (de), verträglich (de)
• Italian: compatibile (it)
• Polish: kompatybilny
• Russian: совмести́мый (ru) (sovmestímyj), подходящий друг другу (podxodjaščij drug drugu)
• Tagalog: magkasundo, magkahiyang
• Vietnamese: hợp (vi), thích hợp (vi)

consistent; congruous

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: yhteensopiva (fi), yhtäpitävä (fi); linjassa (in line)
• (deprecated template usage) {{trans-mid}}
• Russian: совпада́ющий (ru) (sovpadájuščij), сочета́ющийся (ru) (sočetájuščijsja)
• Tagalog: magkasundo
• Vietnamese: phù hợp (vi)

Noun

compatible (plural compatibles)

1. Something that is compatible with something else.

   a computer company that sells IBM compatibles

Further reading

• “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.

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Asturian

Adjective

compatible (epicene, plural compatibles)

1. compatible (capable of easy interaction)

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Catalan

Pronunciation

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

Adjective

compatible m or f (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)

1. compatible

   Antonym: incompatible

Derived terms

• compatibilitat
• incompatible

Further reading

• “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.

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French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pa.tibl/

• Audio

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Adjective

compatible (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

Antonyms

• incompatible

Derived terms

• compatibilité

Further reading

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

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Galician

Alternative forms

• compatíbel

Adjective

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

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Middle French

Adjective

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

References

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

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Spanish

Adjective

compatible m or f (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)

1. compatible

Antonyms

• incompatible

Related terms

• compatibilidad

Further reading

• Template:R:DRAE 2001