comparableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA: /ˈkɒmp.(ə.)ɹə.bɫ̩/, /kəmˈpæɹ.ə.bɫ̩/
• (米国発音) IPA: /ˈkɑmp.(ə.)ɹə.bɫ̩/, /kəmˈpæɹ.ə.bɫ̩/
• (米国発音, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA: /kəmˈpɛɹ.ə.bɫ̩/

形容詞

comparable (comparative more comparable, superlative most comparable)

1. (often with to) Able to be compared (to).

   An elephant is comparable in size to a double-decker bus.

   You can't say that robbing a bank is like pickpocketing. The two are just not comparable.

   • 1951 April, Stirling Everard, “A Matter of Pedigree”, in Railway Magazine, number 600, page 273:

     The firebox married to Britannia's boiler is not, however, in the Doncaster tradition, notwithstanding that it is comparable in dimensions to that of the "V2."

   • 2022 January 12, Sir Michael Holden, “Reform of the workforce or death by a thousand cuts?”, in RAIL, number 948, page 22:

     As yet, we don't know what the comparable figures will be like for the current financial year which ends in March 2022, but we can have a good stab at approximating them.

2. (often with to) Similar (to); like.
   • 2013 July-August, Philip J. Bushnell, “Solvents, Ethanol, Car Crashes & Tolerance”, in American Scientist:

     Furthermore, this increase in risk is comparable to the risk of death from leukemia after long-term exposure to benzene, another solvent, which has the well-known property of causing this type of cancer.

3. (mathematics) Constituting a pair in a particular partial order.

   Six and forty-two are comparable in the divides order, but six and nine are not.

4. (grammar, of an adjective) Having comparative and superlative forms.

   Synonym: gradable

   "Big" is a comparable adjective because it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; "unique" and "amazing", in contrast, are not comparable adjectives.

使用する際の注意点

• The pronunciation /ˈkɒmp(ə)ɹəbl̩/ is almost never used for sense 4.

派生語

名詞

comparable (plural comparables)

1. Something suitable for comparison.
   • 2009 January 2, Fred A. Bernstein, “Catskill Home Prices: How Low Will They Go?”, in New York Times‎:

     And the appraiser said he couldn't come up with comparables, because there hadn't been any sales nearby in several months.

Further reading

• “comparable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• comparable in Britannica Dictionary
• comparable in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• “comparable adjectives, gradable adjectives”, in Google Books Ngram Viewer.

語源

Borrowed from Middle French comparable, from Latin comparābilis; equivalent to comparen +‎ -able.

発音

• IPA: /ˌkɔmpaˈraːbəl/, /ˌkɔmpaˈraːblə/, /ˈkɔmpərabəl/

形容詞

comparable (Late Middle English)

1. Of identical or similar value; comparing favourably.
2. Comparable, commensurable; suitable for comparison.

派生した語

• English: comparable

参照

• “comparāble, adj.”, in MED Online, Ann Arbor, Mich.: University of Michigan, 2007.