English

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:

     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
• non-compatible

Derived terms

• compatibility
• signature-compatible

Related terms

• compassion

Translations

Noun

compatible ‎(plural compatibles)

1. Something that is compatible with something else.

   a computer company that sells IBM compatibles

External links

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

Asturian

Adjective

compatible (epicene, plural compatibles)

1. compatible (capable of easy interaction)

French

Adjective

compatible m, f ‎(plural compatibles)

1. compatible

Middle French

Adjective

compatible m, f ‎(plural compatibles)

1. compatible

References

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

Spanish

Adjective

compatible m, f ‎(plural compatibles)

1. compatible