comparableとは 意味・読み方・使い方

発音

• (英国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɒmp(ə)ɹəbl̩/, /kəmˈpæɹəbl̩/
• (米国発音) IPA^(key): /ˈkɑmp(ə)ɹəbl̩/, /kəmˈpæɹəbl̩/
• (米国発音, Mary–marry–merry merger) IPA^(key): /kəmˈpɛɹəbl̩/

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.

   • 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.

5. (grammar) Said of an adjective that has comparative and superlative forms.

   "Big" is a comparable adjective, since it can take the forms "bigger" and "biggest"; but "unique" is not comparable, except in disputed, but common, usage.

   Synonym: gradable

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 (複数形 comparables)

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

     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 at OneLook Dictionary Search
• comparable in Britannica Dictionary
• comparable in Ozdic collocation dictionary
• comparable adjectives, gradable adjectives at Google Ngram Viewer