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発音

• (英国発音, General Australian) IPA: /ˈæd.mə.ɹə.bli/
• (米国発音, Canada) IPA: /ˈæd.mɪɹ.ə.bli/

副詞

admirably (comparative more admirably, superlative most admirably)

1. In a way worthy of admiration.

   Hyponym: applaudably

   Near-synonym: laudably

   He succeeded admirably in drawing fire away from the troop transports.

   Admirably, he went down with his ship after the surviving crew got away in lifeboats.

   • 1749, [John Cleland], “(Please specify the letter or volume)”, in Memoirs of a Woman of Pleasure [Fanny Hill], London: […] [Thomas Parker] for G. Fenton [i.e., Fenton and Ralph Griffiths] […], →OCLC:

     ...yet more than all I had heard of it, now strongly informed me I was to expect that supreme pleasure which she had placed in the meeting of those parts so admirably fitted for each other.

2. To an admirable degree.

   They have made admirably great improvements in quality.

   • 1956 October, R. S. McNaught, “Locomotive Nicknames”, in Railway Magazine, pages 698-699:

     Naturally, odd pairs of engines and solitary examples lend themselves admirably to nicknames: for example, the Great Eastern 0-10-0 tank "Decapod", and the Lickey Incline banker, "Big Bertha", recently withdrawn from service.

関連する語

• admire
• admiringly