Compatible With: Standard Pattern records the directly documented Cambridge construction without inventing a parallel “compatible to” rule that the reviewed source does not establish.
ReviewedEvidence1 sourceSectionEnglish Usage
Quick answer
Cambridge documents “compatible with” for things or people that can exist, work, or be used successfully together.
Key details
Confusion Familyusage-construction
Rule Familyadjective complement
Termscompatible with
Further guidance
Construction
Cambridge gives compatible with in both general and technical senses.
Style Boundary
This page records the supported construction; it does not claim that every occurrence of compatible must be followed by a complement.
Sources and evidence
Sources are shown with the role they play in this guide. Historical or style-sensitive claims are kept within the evidence boundary described above.
Absent From: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Accountable For: Standard Pattern records the directly documented Cambridge construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced complement pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Acquainted With: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Addicted To: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Adept At: Standard Pattern records a directly documented English construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
Adjacent To: Standard Pattern records the directly documented construction and keeps guidance bounded to the evidenced complement pattern rather than inventing a broader prohibition.
