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Comparable vs Flattish - What's the difference?

comparable | flattish |

As adjectives the difference between comparable and flattish

is that comparable is able to be compared (to) while flattish is somewhat flat, in any comparable sense of the word.

As a noun comparable

is something suitable for comparison.

comparable

English

Adjective

(en-adj)
  • Able to be compared (to).
  • Similar (to); like.
  • * {{quote-magazine, year=2013, month=July-August, author= Philip J. Bushnell
  • , magazine=(American Scientist), title= Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance , passage=Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.}}
  • (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.
  • (grammar) Said of an adjective that has a comparative and superlative form.
  • Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something suitable for comparison.
  • * {{quote-news, 2009, January 2, Fred A. Bernstein, Catskill Home Prices: How Low Will They Go?, New York Times citation
  • , passage=And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables , because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months. }} ----

    flattish

    English

    Adjective

    (-)
  • Somewhat flat, in any comparable sense of the word.