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1.
Something that is comparable to something else is roughly similar, for example in amount or importance.
...paying the same wages to men and women for work of comparable value...
Farmers were meant to get an income comparable to that of townspeople...
The risk it poses is comparable with smoking just one cigarette every year.
= similar
ADJ : oft ADJ to/with n
2.
If two or more things are comparable , they are of the same kind or are in the same situation, and so they can reasonably be compared.
In other comparable countries real wages increased much more rapidly...
By contrast, the comparable figure for the Netherlands is 16 per cent...
= equivalent
ADJ