measured

Adjective

measured (comparative more measured, superlative most measured)

1. That has been determined by measurement.
   • He ran over a measured mile.
   • Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16
2. Deliberate but restrained.
   • He argued in measured tones.
   • But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
     ⁠A use in measured language lies;
     ⁠The sad mechanic exercise,
     Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC

   Synonyms:

   reasonable, temperate, mellow, middle of the road, mild, moderate, nonexcessive, nonextreme, nonfanatic, proper

3. Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.
   • As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's...1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19