{
    "term": "comparable",
    "partOfSpeech": "adjective",
    "ox5000": true,
    "cefr": "c1",
    "definitions": [
        {
            "senseNumber": null,
            "definition": "similar to somebody/something else and able to be compared",
            "sensetop": "comparable to/with somebody/somethingcomparable in something",
            "examples": [
                {
                    "text": "A comparable house in the south of the city would cost twice as much."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The situation in the US is not directly comparable to that in the UK.",
                    "contextForm": "comparable to/with somebody/something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Inflation is now at a rate comparable with that in other European countries."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The two machines are comparable in size.",
                    "contextForm": "comparable in something"
                },
                {
                    "text": "Its brain is closely comparable to the brain of a chimpanzee."
                },
                {
                    "text": "No other country at that time had an organized public opinion remotely comparable to Britain's."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The earthquake was comparable with others in recent years."
                },
                {
                    "text": "The regional variation in Australian accent is not in any way comparable to that found in the UK or US."
                },
                {
                    "text": "There are no other scanners even remotely comparable to this in terms of quality of image produced."
                },
                {
                    "text": "a job comparable to mine"
                }
            ],
            "collocations": {
                "verbs": ["be", "become"],
                "adverb": ["closely", "quite", "very"],
                "preposition": ["in", "to", "with"],
                "phrases": [
                    "something comparable (to something)",
                    "there is nothing comparable (to something)"
                ]
            }
        }
    ],
    "pronunciations": {
        "uk": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɒmpərəbl/",
                "audio": "co/comparable/comparable__gb_1.mp3"
            }
        ],
        "us": [
            {
                "pronunciation": "/ˈkɑːmpərəbl/",
                "audio": "co/comparable/comparable__us_1.mp3"
            }
        ]
    },
    "wordOrigin": "late Middle English: from Old French, from Latin comparabilis, from the verb comparare, from compar ‘like, equal’, from com- ‘with’ + par ‘equal’."
}