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comparable

 adjective
     
com‧pa‧ra‧ble
1 similar to something else in size, number, quality etc, so that you can make a comparison [↪ compare, comparison]:
A car of comparable size would cost far more abroad.
comparable figures/data/results
comparable figures for the same period of time last year
comparable with/to
The planet Pluto is comparable in size to the moon.
2 being equally important, good, bad etc:
These two artists just aren't comparable.
comparable with/to
His poetry is hardly comparable with Shakespeare's.
—comparability noun [uncountable]
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