compatibly
1
4.8
- adverb
- /kəmˈpætəblɪ/
:
compatiblemente
- The new software was designed to run compatibly with both Windows and Mac operating systems.
Examples
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Knowledge of ecological theories situated the intervention compatibly in the community context, with a multifocused practice on families and communities (Coulton, 1996).
Academic text (1997) -
While delivery systems proposed in middle school education models were different from those suggested by gifted education models, all could be incorporated within the total school program and compatibly coexist within a school's curriculum.
Academic text (1998) -
That it was upgraded compatibly over the intervening decades helped since it encouraged large investments in software for the system.
Blog text (28) -
Over the centuries, from his time to ours, a great variety of human needs have aligned themselves with music teaching, usually quite compatibly and nonthreateningly.
Academic text (1999) -
This can take many forms, but it should involve careful reflection about how much money one can keep compatibly with justice to suffering people and about how much of one's personal time and energy should be devoted to some form of public service and activity.
Academic text (2000) -
Indeed, their arguments fortify the possibility that punishment can be justified compatibly with reconciliation.
Academic text (2007) -
She and her brother shared the space compatibly enough, or had until Andrew's drinking became more habitual.
Fiction book (1999) -
As a consequence, young unmarried women are traversing a complex landscape before marriage, as they seek some sexual partners for purely economic purposes while also keeping an eye out for a love match, or at least a man who could compatibly confer the status of wife and mother.
Academic text (2010) -
But Rita discovered that by combining compatibly aged, sexed, and spirited baboons into troops within the cages, then allowing them to reach maturity, she could release them back into the wild together.
Academic text (2007) -
Its focus on trials does not necessitate its rejection of truth commissions, which expose political crimes, affirm victims' dignity, and have been conducted compatibly with trials in places like Timor-Leste and Sierra Leone.
Academic text (2007)
Synonyms
15
3.7
Agreeing with someone or fitting well with something
2
4.1
In a peaceful, friendly way without conflict
In a way that agrees with something or someone
Antonyms
How Compatible
Surface Forms
Morphology
compatibly = compatible (transparent) = com + pat + ibly
The adverb 'compatibly' is transparently derived from the adjective 'compatible' by adding the suffix '-ly'.
Etymology
Compatibly starts with com- 'together' and shares the same root as patient, from a word meaning 'to endure', so a helpful way to remember it is to think of things that can 'endure together'. That's why when things act compatibly they can exist or work side by side without conflict.