Longman Dictionary of Contemporary English - comparable

~ adj 1 similar to something else in size, number, quality etc, so that you can make a comparison  (A comparable car would cost far more abroad.) + with/to  (Is the pay rate comparable to that of other companies? | comparable in size/importance etc)  (The planet Pluto is comparable in size to the moon.) 2 being equally important, good, bad etc  (In my view these two artists just aren't comparable.) + with/to  (His poetry is hardly comparable with Shakespeare's.) - comparability n