adjective · neutral
comparable
UK/ˈkɒmpərəbl/US/ˈkɑːmpərəbl/COM·pa·ra·ble
Band 6-7task2speaking
able to be compared; similar enough to be judged against each other
Examples
“The two universities are comparable in terms of research output.”
“Prices here are comparable to those in the city centre.”
“Her performance was comparable with last year's winner.”
Band 8 sentence
“In objective measures such as citation count, the department is comparable to leading international institutions.”
Collocations
- comparable to
- be comparable with
Word family
compare verbcomparison nouncomparable adjectivecomparatively adverb
Common mistakes
This figure is comparable than last year.→This figure is comparable to last year.
Say it for a higher band
5same→6similar→7+comparable
Synonyms
similar
equivalent
Easily confused
similar
“The two products are similar in design but differ in quality.”
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