conformable

Latin conformabilis

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• Hyphenation: con‧form‧able

conformable (comparative more conformable, superlative most conformable)

1. Having the same shape or form; very similar.
   • 1658, Thomas Browne, “The Garden of Cyrus. […]. Chapter V.”, in Hydriotaphia, Urne-buriall, […] Together with The Garden of Cyrus, […], London: […] Hen[ry] Brome […], →OCLC, page 192:

     According to that Cabaliſticall Dogma: If Abram had not had this Letter [i.e., ה (he)] added unto his Name he had remained fruitleſſe, and without the power of generation: […] So that being ſterill before, he received the power of generation from that meaſure and manſion in the Archetype; and was made conformable unto Binah.

   • 1888, Thomas Hardy, “An Imaginative Woman”, in Wessex Tales:

     In age well-balanced, in personal appearance fairly matched, and in domestic requirements conformable, in temper this couple differed, though even here they did not often clash, he being equable, if not lymphatic, and she decidedly nervous and sanguine.

2. Suitable; compliant.

• similar
• alike
• suitable
• corresponding

• IPA^(key): /konfoɾˈmable/ [kõɱ.foɾˈma.β̞le]
• Rhymes: -able
• Syllabification: con‧for‧ma‧ble

conformable m or f (masculine and feminine plural conformables)

1. conformal