Meanings
comparative more compensable · superlative most compensable
- Able to be compensated.
Synonyms: compensatable, recompensable · Antonyms: incompensable, irrecompensable, uncompensable, unrecompensable
- Entitling one to compensation.
compensable disease
1 more example
Coalworker's pneumoconiosis is a compensable disease in various countries, and it is a preventable disease where the costs of its prevention are not shirked as externalities.
Synonyms: compensatable, recompensable · Antonyms: incompensable, irrecompensable, uncompensable, unrecompensable
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveAble to be compensated.
adjectiveEntitling one to compensation.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivefor which money is paid
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Frenchcompensable
- Englishcompensable
Borrowed from French compensable; by surface analysis, compens(ate) + -able.
More words from French
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Catalan compensable
- compensableable to be compensated
Finnish korvattava
- korvattavaable to be compensated
French compensable
- compensableable to be compensated
German entschädigungspflichtig
- entschädigungspflichtigable to be compensated
Italian retribuibile
- retribuibileable to be compensated
Romanian compensabil
- compensabilable to be compensated
Cite this entry
compensable. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/compensable
“compensable.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/compensable. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “compensable,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/compensable.
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