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Sociable vs Compatible - What's the difference?

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Sociable is a related term of compatible.


As adjectives the difference between sociable and compatible

is that sociable is tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial while compatible is capable of easy interaction.

As a noun compatible is

something that is compatible with something else.

sociable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Tending to socialize or be social; friendly; inviting; congenial.
    • He's normally pretty quiet, but he gets much more sociable around women.
  • * Shakespeare
    • Society is no comfort to one not sociable .
  • Offering opportunities for conversation; characterized by much conversation.
    • a sociable party
  • (archaic) Capable of being, or fit to be, united in one body or company; associable.
  • * Hooker
    • They are sociable parts united into one body.
  • (obsolete) No longer hostile; friendly.
    • (Beaumont and Fletcher)

    Antonyms

    * unsociable ----

    compatible

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Capable of easy interaction.
  • Able to get along well.
  • Consistent; congruous.
  • * {{quote-book, year=1922, author=(Ben Travers), title=(A Cuckoo in the Nest)
    • , chapter=1 citation , passage=She was like a Beardsley Salome , he had said. And indeed she had the narrow eyes and the high cheekbone of that creature, and as nearly the sinuosity as is compatible with human symmetry.}}

    Antonyms

    * incompatible

    Derived terms

    * compatibility

    Related terms

    * compassion

    Noun

    (en noun)
  • Something that is compatible with something else.
    • a computer company that sells IBM compatibles

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