commensurate
/kəˈmens(ə)rət/US/kəˈmɛnsəɹət/
commensurate adjective: of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
Adjective
commensurate (comparative more commensurate, superlative most commensurate)
- Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
- commensurate punishments
- The rewards will be commensurate with the efforts made.
- Synonyms:
- commensurable, allowable, appropriate, apropos, apposite, apt, comely, correct, decorous, expedient
- Antonyms:
- incommensurate, discommensurate, dissimilar, bad, improper, inappropriate, malapropos, inapt, inept, inopportune
- Describing a crystal in which every atom or molecule is placed in the same relative position
- Describing two numbers within the same Archimedean class, so that neither is infinitely larger than the other.
- Crucially, every positive surreal number is commensurate with exactly one ω-power, in the following sense.2013, Aaron N. Siegel, Combinatorial Game Theory, →ISBN, page 424
Verb
commensurate (third-person singular simple present commensurates, present participle commensurating, simple past and past participle commensurated)
- To reduce to a common measure.
- For that division is not naturally founded, but artificially set down, and by agreement, as the aptest terms to define or commensurate the longitude of places.1650, Thomas Browne, Pseudodoxia Epidemica: […], 2nd edition, London: […] A[braham] Miller, for Edw[ard] Dod and Nath[aniel] Ekins, […], →OCLC
- To proportionate; to adjust.
- The rare temper and proportion, which the Church of England useth in commensurating the Forms of Absolution to the degrees of preparation and necessity, is to be observed1679, Timothy Puller, The moderation of the Church of England considered as useful for allaying the present distempers which the indisposition of the time hath contracted
commensurate meaning in Tamil, Bengali, Malayalam and Kannada
commensurate in Tamil
- ஒப்பிடத்தக்க
commensurate in Bengali
- সমানুপাতিক, সমতুল্য
commensurate in Malayalam
- equivalent, equal, corresponding
- യഥാർഹമായ അനുപാതത്തിലുള്ള, തത്തുല്യം, വ്യാപ്തിയിലോ അളവിലോ സമാനമായ, പരിമാണതുല്യതയുള്ള, സാനുപാതമായ, അനുസാരിയായ
- appropriate to, in keeping with, in line with
- അനുയുക്തമായ, അനുഗുണമായ, ശരിയായ, അനുസരണമായ, അനുയോജ്യമായ, ഇത്രയ്ക്കിത്ര എന്ന വ്യവസ്ഥയിലുള്ള
commensurate in Kannada
- ತಕ್ಕ, ಉಚಿತ, ಅನುಗುಣ, ಅನುರೂಪ
Examples of commensurate in a sentence
- The $100 settlement was hardly commensurate with the humiliation his client had experienced.1981 February 7, David Morris, “Gay Man Wins Suit Against Police”, in Gay Community News, volume 8, number 28, page 4:
- Kettering will become an important interchange for passengers making these journeys, and EMR is considering improvements to the station's facilities commensurate with this status.2019 October, Tony Miles, Philip Sherratt, “EMR kicks off new era”, in Modern Railways, page 54:
- Katzenberg is now taking his commensurate lumps, particularly because contributors feel he helped disabuse donors’ concerns about Mr.2024 July 11, Theodore Schleifer, Jacob Bernstein, Reid J. Epstein, “How Biden Lost George Clooney and Hollywood”, in The New York Times...
Synonyms of commensurate
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Antonyms
- incommensurate
- discommensurate
- dissimilar
- bad
- improper
- inappropriate
- malapropos
- inapt
- inept
- inopportune
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Forms of commensurate
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | more commensurate |
| superlative | most commensurate |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | commensurates |
| present participle | commensurating |
| past participle | commensurated |
| past | commensurated |
Origin of commensurate
First attested in 1641; borrowed from Late Latin commēnsūrātus, from com- (“together, with”) + mēnsūrātus, perfect passive participle of mēnsūrō (“to measure, to estimate”), (see -ate (adjective-forming suffix) and -ate (verb-forming suffix)), from Latin mēnsūra (“measure”) + -ō (verb-forming suffix).
Words formed from commensurate
Questions about commensurate
- What does commensurate mean?
- Commensurate means of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
- What is commensurate in Tamil?
- Commensurate in Tamil is ஒப்பிடத்தக்க. See Commensurate meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use commensurate in a sentence?
- The $100 settlement was hardly commensurate with the humiliation his client had experienced.
- What part of speech is commensurate?
- Commensurate can be an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce commensurate?
- Commensurate is pronounced /kəˈmens(ə)rət/ (UK).
Words near commensurate in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: commensurate (page history and authors); commensurate (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commensurate (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); commensurate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license); commensurate (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.
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