comparable
/ˈkɑmpɚəbəl/ adjective C1- Able to be compared (to). · An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.· You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.
- Similar (to); like.
- Constituting a pair in a particular partial order. · Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.
- Having comparative and superlative forms.
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The translator must therefore abandon the literal meaning in favor of the comedic effect, searching the target language for a comparable, yet entirely different, joke.
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