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American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition

  1. adj. Of the same size, extent, or duration as another.
  2. adj. Corresponding in size or degree; proportionate: a salary commensurate with my performance.
  3. adj. Measurable by a common standard; commensurable.

Century Dictionary and Cyclopedia

  1. To reduce to a common measure.
  2. To adapt; proportionate.
  3. Reducible to a common measure; commensurable.
  4. Of equal size; having the same boundaries.
  5. Corresponding in amount, degree, or magnitude; adequate; proportionate to the purpose, occasion, capacity, etc.: as, we find nothing in this life commensurate with our desires.

Wiktionary

  1. adj. Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

GNU Webster's 1913

  1. v. To reduce to a common measure.
  2. v. To proportionate; to adjust.
  3. adj. Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a common measure.
  4. adj. Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.

WordNet 3.0

  1. adj. corresponding in size or degree or extent

Etymologies

  1. From Latin com- ("together, with") + mēnsūrō ("measure; estimate"). (Wiktionary)
  2. Late Latin commēnsūrātus : Latin com-, com- + mēnsūrātus (from past participle of mēnsūrāre, to measure, from Latin mēnsūra, measure; see measure). (American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language, Fourth Edition)

Examples

  • “Additionally, members can qualify to serve with the Expectation of Continued Employment after their sixth consecutive year of employment pending a performance review but will "normally be reappointed with a term commensurate with the term just completed," according to University policy.”

    The Cavalier Daily

  • “We are of course at war and so, given how serious the Government says matters are (such that they justify these new inroads into our freedoms), then perhaps we ought to treat the funding of our military in commensurate manner, foregoing some of the luxuries to which we have become accustomed.”

    Archive 2007-11-18

  • “I kept silence from utter inability to say a word commensurate with my grief.”

    NPNF2-08. Basil: Letters and Select Works

  • “If someone like Justice Souter said something “equivalent,” or commensurate, which is to say make an aside comment in an informal setting”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Good One-Liner from Justice Thomas:

  • “If someone like Justice Souter said something “equivalent,” or commensurate, which is to say make an aside comment in an informal setting, nothing would, and nothing has, been made of it.”

    The Volokh Conspiracy » A Good One-Liner from Justice Thomas:

  • “This consideration, apart from any other, should be sufficient to convince us that there is no solution of our problems apart from a return to simpler conditions of life, such as would reduce the complexity of our relationships to terms commensurate with the human understanding.”

    Industrialism and Guilds

  • “That is all," the man said, and March felt in his pocket for a coin commensurate to the service he had done them; it ought to be something handsome.”

    Their Silver Wedding Journey — Complete

  • “If I am reviewing a book should I withhold my judgment of that book or fail to express it in terms commensurate with my evaluation?”

    PoetryFoundation.org

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synonyms (4)

Words with the same meaning

  1. proportionate
  1. adjust
  1. commensurable
  1. adequate

equivalents (5)

Other words for ‘commensurate’

  1. coextensive
  1. conterminous
  1. proportionate
  1. commensurable
  1. coterminous

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  1. incommensurate

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  1. proportionate
  2. comparable
  1. fraught
  2. appreciable
  1. akin
  2. coextensive
  1. half-past
  2. upgradeable
  1. double-digit
  2. coterminous

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Words that contain this word in their definition

  1. commensurately
  2. incommensurate
  3. commeasurable
  1. commeasure
  2. commensurateness
  3. commensuration
  1. stretch-out
  2. answerable
  3. adequate
  1. commensurable
  2. commensurate
  3. law of the land
  1. adequate cognition
  2. equal
  3. phrenology

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  • maesepedro "... face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder." Jan 2, 2008

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