compatible

English

Etymology

from Middle French compatible, from Medieval Latin compatibilis (“in compatibile beneficium, a benefice which could be held together with another one”), from Late Latin compator (“to suffer with”), from com- (“together”) + pati (“to suffer”); see passion.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation, US, Canada) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpæt.ə.bəl/, [km̩ˈpæt.ə.bl̩]

  • Audio (Southern England):

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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.

   • 1921, Ben Travers, chapter 1, in A Cuckoo in the Nest, Garden City, N.Y.: Doubleday, Page & Company, published 1925, →OCLC:

     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
• noncompatible

Hyponyms

• autocompatible
• backward compatible
• backward-compatible
• backwards compatible
• backwards-compatible
• binary-compatible
• biocompatible
• C++-compatible
• C#-compatible
• COBOL-compatible
• compatibilise
• compatibilism
• compatibilist
• compatibilization
• compatibilize
• compatibleness
• compatibly
• cross-compatible
• cytobiocompatible
• cytocompatible
• Fortran-compatible
• FORTRAN-compatible
• forward compatible
• forwards compatible
• genocompatible
• haemocompatible
• hemocompatible
• histocompatible
• IBM-compatible
• immunocompatible
• intercompatible
• JSF-compatible
• JSP-compatible
• JSX-compatible
• metrically compatible
• metric-compatible
• osteocompatible
• PC-compatible
• self-compatible
• serocompatible
• signature-compatible
• uncompatible
• upward compatible

 

Related terms

• compassion
• compatibility

Translations

capable of easy interaction

• Arabic: please add this translation if you can
• Armenian: համատեղելի (hy) (hamateġeli)
• Asturian: compatible
• Bulgarian: съвместим (bg) (sǎvmestim)
• Burmese: please add this translation if you can
• Catalan: compatible (ca)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Czech: slučitelný, kompatibilní
• Danish: kompatibel
• Dutch: verenigbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: kongrua
• Estonian: please add this translation if you can
• Finnish: yhteensopiva (fi)
• French: compatible (fr)
• Galician: compatible (gl), compatíbel (gl)
• Georgian: please add this translation if you can
• German: austauschbar (de), fähig (de), kompatibel (de), verträglich (de), vereinbar (de)
• Greek: please add this translation if you can
• Hebrew: תואם m (toém), מתאים m (mat'ím)
• Hungarian: please add this translation if you can
• Icelandic: samhæfður, samhæfur
• Italian: compatibile (it)
• Khmer: please add this translation if you can
• Korean: please add this translation if you can
• Kurdish:

  Northern Kurdish: guncav (ku)

• Latvian: please add this translation if you can
• Lithuanian: please add this translation if you can
• Maori: hototahi (refers specifically to computing)
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: kompatibel (no)

  Nynorsk: kompatibel

• Persian: همپشت (hampošt), سازوار (fa) (sāzvār)
• Polish: kompatybilny, zgodny (pl)
• Portuguese: compatível (pt)
• Romanian: compatibil (ro) m
• Russian: совмести́мый (ru) (sovmestímyj), сочета́емый (ru) (sočetájemyj)
• Serbo-Croatian: kompatibilan (sh) m
• Spanish: compatible (es)
• Swedish: kompatibel (sv)
• Tagalog: magkasundo, magkahiyang
• Thai: please add this translation if you can
• Turkish: bağdaşan, bağdaşır, uyumlu (tr)
• Vietnamese: tương thích, tương hợp (vi)

able to get along well

• Bulgarian: съвместим (bg) (sǎvmestim)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Dutch: verenigbaar (nl)
• Esperanto: simpatia (eo)
• Finnish: toimeen tuleva (fi), yhteen sopiva
• French: compatible (fr)
• Galician: compatíbel (gl) m or f
• German: kompatibel (de), verträglich (de), ein gutes Gespann
• Italian: compatibile (it)
• Polish: kompatybilny
• Russian: совмести́мый (ru) (sovmestímyj), подходящий друг другу (podxodjaščij drug drugu)
• Tagalog: magkasundo, magkahiyang
• Vietnamese: hợp (vi), thích hợp (vi)

consistent; congruous

• Chinese:

  Mandarin: please add this translation if you can

• Finnish: yhteensopiva (fi), yhtäpitävä (fi); linjassa (in line)
• German: im Einklang, gut verträglich
• Norwegian:

  Bokmål: forenelig (no)

• Russian: совпада́ющий (ru) (sovpadájuščij), сочета́ющийся (ru) (sočetájuščijsja)
• Tagalog: magkasundo
• Vietnamese: phù hợp (vi)

Noun

compatible (plural compatibles)

1. Something that is compatible with something else.

   a computer company that sells IBM compatibles

Further reading

• “compatible”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• “compatible”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., 1911, →OCLC.

Asturian

Adjective

compatible (epicene, plural compatibles)

1. compatible (capable of easy interaction)

Catalan

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): (Central) [kum.pəˈtib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Balearic) [kom.pəˈtib.blə]
• IPA^(key): (Valencia) [kom.paˈti.ble]

Adjective

compatible m or f (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)

1. compatible

   Antonym: incompatible

Derived terms

• compatibilitat
• incompatible

Further reading

• “compatible” in Diccionari de la llengua catalana, segona edició, Institut d’Estudis Catalans.
• “compatible”, in Gran Diccionari de la Llengua Catalana, Grup Enciclopèdia Catalana, 2024
• “compatible” in Diccionari normatiu valencià, Acadèmia Valenciana de la Llengua.
• “compatible” in Diccionari català-valencià-balear, Antoni Maria Alcover and Francesc de Borja Moll, 1962.

French

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kɔ̃.pa.tibl/

• Audio:

  (file)

Adjective

compatible (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

   Antonym: incompatible

Derived terms

• compatibilité

Descendants

• → Portuguese: compatível

Further reading

• “compatible”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.

Galician

Alternative forms

• compatíbel

Adjective

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

Middle French

Adjective

compatible m or f (plural compatibles)

1. compatible

References

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

Spanish

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /kompaˈtible/ [kõm.paˈt̪i.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -ible
• Syllabification: com‧pa‧ti‧ble

Adjective

compatible m or f (masculine and feminine plural compatibles)

1. compatible

   Antonym: incompatible

Derived terms

• compatibilidad
• compatibilizar

 

Further reading

• “compatible”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.8, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2024 December 10