Word Meanings - COMPATIBLE - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with. Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. Broome. Syn. -- Consistent; suitable; agreeable; accordant.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of COMPATIBLE)
- Beseeming
- Befitting
- belonging
- suitable
- appertaining
- consistent
- compatible
- requisite
- decent
- graceful
- Coexistent
- Concurrent
- coetaneous
- contemporary
- coincident
- correspondent
- correlative
- Consistent
- Congruous
- accordant
- consonant
- agreeing
- harmonious
- Reconcilable
- forgiving
Related words: (words related to COMPATIBLE)
- CONTEMPORARY
1. Living, occuring, or existing, at the same time; done in, or belonging to, the same times; contemporaneous. This king was contemporary with the greatest monarchs of Europe. Strype. 2. Of the same age; coeval. A grove born with himself he sees, - BESEEMING
1. Appearance; look; garb. I . . . did company these three in poor beseeming. Shak. 2. Comeliness. Baret. - CONSISTENTLY
In a consistent manner. - GRACEFUL
Displaying grace or beauty in form or action; elegant; easy; agreeable in appearance; as, a graceful walk, deportment, speaker, air, act, speech. High o'er the rest in arms the graceful Turnus rode. Dryden. -- Grace"ful*ly, adv. Grace"ful*ness, n. - ACCORDANTLY
In accordance or agreement; agreeably; conformably; -- followed by with or to. - FORGIVER
One who forgives. Johnson. - CORRELATIVENESS
Quality of being correlative. - COEXISTENT
Existing at the same time with another. -- n. - FORGIVING
Disposed to forgive; inclined to overlook offenses; mild; merciful; compassionate; placable; as, a forgiving temper. -- For*giv"ing*ly, adv. -- For*giv"ing*ness, n. J. C. Shairp. - COMPATIBLE
Capable of existing in harmony; congruous; suitable; not repugnant; -- usually followed by with. Our poets have joined together such qualities as are by nature the most compatible. Broome. Syn. -- Consistent; suitable; agreeable; accordant. - RECONCILABLE
Capable of being reconciled; as, reconcilable adversaries; an act reconciable with previous acts. The different accounts of the numbers of ships are reconcilable. Arbuthnot. -- Rec"on*ci`la*ble*ness, n. -- Rec"on*ci`la*bly, adv. - AGREER
One who agrees. - BESEEM
Literally: To appear or seem for to do or to have. Hence: To be fit, suitable, or proper for, or worthy of; to become; to befit. A duty well beseeming the preachers. Clarendon. What form of speech or behavior beseemeth us, in our prayers to God - BEFITTINGLY
In a befitting manner; suitably. - FORGIVE
forgifan; perh. for- + giefan, gifan to give; cf. D. vergeven, G. vergeben, Icel. fyrirgefa, Sw. f, Goth. fragiban to give, grant. See 1. To give wholly; to make over without reservation; to resign. To them that list the world's gay shows I leave, - BESEEMLY
Fit; suitable; becoming. In beseemly order sitten there. Shenstone. - COETANEOUS
Of the same age; beginning to exist at the same time; contemporaneous. -- Co`e*ta"ne*ous*ly, adv. And all are coetaneous. Bentley. - COINCIDENT
Having coincidence; occupying the same place; contemporaneous; concurrent; -- followed by with. Christianity teaches nothing but what is perfectly suitable to, and coincident with, the ruling principles of a virtuous and well- inclined man. South. - PREREQUISITE
Previously required; necessary as a preliminary to any proposed effect or end; as, prerequisite conditions of success. - DISAGREEABLENESS
The state or quality of being; disagreeable; unpleasantness. - UNHARMONIOUS
Inharmonious; unsymmetrical; also, unmusical; discordant. Swift. -- Un`har*mo"ni*ous*ly, adv. - SHAGREEN; SHAGREENED
Covered with rough scales or points like those on shagreen. (more info) 1. Made or covered with the leather called shagreen. "A shagreen case of lancets." T. Hook. - SHAGREEN
To chagrin. - MISBESEEM
To suit ill. - DISAGREER
One who disagrees. Hammond. - BAGREEF
The lower reef of fore and aft sails; also, the upper reef of topsails. Ham. Nav. Encyc. - INCONSISTENTLY
In an inconsistent manner. - DISCORRESPONDENT
Incongruous. W. Montagu.