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語源

From French similaire, from Medieval Latin similaris, extended from Latin similis (“like”); akin to simul (“together”).

発音

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA: /ˈsɪm.ɪ.lə/, /ˈsɪm.ə.lə/
• (General American, Canada) IPA: /ˈsɪm.ə.lɚ/, /ˈsɪm.lɚ/
• (General Australian) IPA: /ˈsɪm.ə.lə/
• (New Zealand) IPA: /ˈsəm.ə.lə/
• (Hong Kong) IPA: /ˈsiː.miː.laː/, /ˈsiː.miu̯.laː/
• ハイフネーション: sim‧i‧lar

形容詞

similar (comparative more similar, superlative most similar)

1. Having traits or characteristics in common; alike, allied, comparable.

   My new car is quite similar to my old one, except it has a bit more space in the back.

   • 1908, W[illiam] B[lair] M[orton] Ferguson, chapter IV, in Zollenstein, New York, N.Y.: D. Appleton & Company, →OCLC:

     So this was my future home, I thought! Certainly it made a brave picture. I had seen similar ones fired-in on many a Heidelberg stein. Backed by towering hills, […] a sky of palest Gobelin flecked with fat, fleecy little clouds, it in truth looked a dear little city; the city of one's dreams.

   • 2013 May-June, Charles T. Ambrose, “Alzheimer’s Disease”, in American Scientist, volume 101, number 3, page 200:

     Similar studies of rats have employed four different intracranial resorbable, slow sustained release systems—surgical foam, a thermal gel depot, a microcapsule or biodegradable polymer beads.

2. (mathematics) Having the same shape, in particular, having corresponding angles equal and corresponding line segments proportional.
3. (mathematics, linear algebra) Of two square matrices; being such that a conjugation sends one matrix to the other.

同意語

• (with common characteristics): akin, allied, alike, comparable, identical, same, twin

反意語

• (antonym(s) of “alike”): different, unlike, dissimilar

派生語

関連する語

名詞

similar (plural similars)

1. That which is similar to, or resembles, something else, as in quality, form, etc.

   Hyponyms: lookalike, soundalike; biosimilar; imitation; simulacrum

2. (homeopathy) A material that produces an effect that resembles the symptoms of a particular disease.

Further reading

• “similar”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.
• William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E[li] Smith, editors (1911), “similar”, in The Century Dictionary […], New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.