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commensurately

commensurately adverb: in a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate.

Adverb

commensurately (comparative more commensurately, superlative most commensurately)

  1. In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate.
    • Admiral Kurita has no identification charts for escort carriers, and so, assumes that the distant targets are fleet carriers. Commensurately, by scale, their escorts must either be battleships or cruisers. The Japanese forces therefore continue to load armor-piercing rounds, what will turn out to...2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 12:25 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 03 Nov 2022
    • One thing heterofatalism reflects is a persistent lack of faith that those we desire will be able to recognize us as commensurately human.2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 Jul 2025
  2. With equal measure or extent.

commensurately meaning in Tamil

commensurately in Tamil

சம அளவிலான

Synonyms of commensurately

Forms of commensurately

comparativemore commensurately
superlativemost commensurately

Origin of commensurately

From commensurate + -ly.

Questions about commensurately

What does commensurately mean?
Commensurately means in a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate.
What is commensurately in Tamil?
Commensurately in Tamil is சம அளவிலான. See Commensurately meaning in Tamil.
What part of speech is commensurately?
Commensurately is an adverb.

Words near commensurately in the dictionary

  1. commensurable
  2. commensurableness
  3. commensurably
  4. commensurate
  5. commensurated
  6. commensurately
  7. commensurateness
  8. commensuraters
  9. commensurates
  10. commensurating
  11. commensuration

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Adapted from Wiktionary: commensurately (page history and authors); commensurately (Tamil 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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