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発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɒmp(ə)rəbəl/, /ɪŋkəmˈpærəbəl/
• (General American) IPA: /ɪŋˈkɑmp(ə)ɹəbəl/, /ɪŋkəmˈpɛɹəbəl/

形容詞

incomparable (comparative more incomparable, superlative most incomparable)

1. (literally, not comparable) Not comparable.

   Synonyms: noncomparable, uncomparable

   Antonym: comparable

2. (figuratively, comparable) So much better than another as to be beyond comparison.

   Synonyms: matchless, unsurpassed

   • c. 1905, Oscar Wilde, edited by Robert Baldwin Ross, De Profundis, published 1909, page 112:

     I know of nothing in all drama more incomparable from the point of view of art, nothing more suggestive in its subtlety of observation, than Shakespeare's drawing of Rosencrantz and Guildenstern.

使用する際の注意点

• Despite its apparently absolute meaning, incomparable is often used as if there were degrees of incomparability, occurring with adverbs such as so and very or the determiner most.

派生語

参考

• priceless

名詞

incomparable (plural incomparables)

1. Something beyond compare; a thing with which there is no comparison.

Further reading

• “incomparable”, in OneLook Dictionary Search.
• “incomparable”, in Merriam-Webster Online Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: Merriam-Webster, 1996–present.
• “incomparable”, in The American Heritage Dictionary of the English Language, 5th edition, Boston, Mass.: Houghton Mifflin Harcourt, 2016, →ISBN.
• “incomparable”, in Collins English Dictionary.
• incomparable, uncomparable, noncomparable at the Google Books Ngram Viewer.