incommensurate
incommensurate adjective: out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else.
Adjective
incommensurate (comparative more incommensurate, superlative most incommensurate)
- Out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else.
- In the marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi we saw a commensurate relationship between the two, a marriage of Heaven and earth, but now in the fall of Inanna into hell, the relationship becomes incommensurate.1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 179
incommensurate meaning in Urdu and Malayalam
incommensurate in Urdu
- باموزوں, ناکافی
incommensurate in Malayalam
- not in proportion, disproportionate, out of proportion
- ആനുപാതികമായല്ലാത്ത, സമമല്ലാത്ത, അനുപാതമില്ലാത്ത, യുക്താനുപാതത്തിലല്ലാത്ത, തുല്യാനുപാതത്തിലല്ലാത്ത, പ്രമാണതുല്ല്യതയില്ലാത്ത
Antonyms of incommensurate
Forms of incommensurate
| comparative | more incommensurate |
|---|---|
| superlative | most incommensurate |
Origin of incommensurate
From in- + commensurate.
Words formed from incommensurate
Questions about incommensurate
- What does incommensurate mean?
- Incommensurate means out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else.
- What is incommensurate in Urdu?
- Incommensurate in Urdu is باموزوں, ناکافی. See Incommensurate meaning in Urdu.
- What part of speech is incommensurate?
- Incommensurate is an adjective.
Words near incommensurate in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: incommensurate (page history and authors); incommensurate (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); incommensurate (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). 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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