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Comparable vs Proportionate - What's the difference?

comparable | proportionate |

As adjectives the difference between comparable and proportionate

is that comparable is able to be compared (to) while proportionate is in proportion; proportional; commensurable.

As a noun comparable

is something suitable for comparison.

As a verb proportionate is

to make proportionate.

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.

    • Related terms

    * incomparable * comparability * comparableness

    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. }} ----

    proportionate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
  • * John Locke
    • What is proportionate to his transgression.
  • Harmonious and symmetrical.

    • Antonyms

    * (in proportion) disproportionate, nonproportionate, unproportionate * (harmonious and symmetrical)

    Verb

    (proportionat)
  • To make proportionate.

    • See also

    * apportion English heteronyms ----