comparable

Able to be compared (to).often

• An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.
• You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.

Similar (to); like.often

• Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.

• Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.

Having comparative and superlative forms.

• "Big" is a comparable adjective because it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; "unique" and "amazing", in contrast, are not comparable adjectives.

Something suitable for comparison.

• And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months.