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尤: reasonable

reasonable; indeed; natural
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Readings

On
ユウ
Kun
もっとも・とがめる

Almost always read もっとも (尤も is often written in kana); ユウ appears in the statistics term 尤度 (likelihood).

Key words

尤ももっともindeed; natural; however
尤もらしいもっともらしいplausible; seemingly reasonable
ご尤もごもっともquite right (polite)
尤度ゆうどlikelihood (statistics)

Example sentences

I think it's only natural that he is angry.

He told a lie with a plausible straight face.

In statistics, how well a model fits the data is expressed by likelihood.

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