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.