Commensurate

4 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, a.
     1. Having a common measure; commensurable; reducible to a
        common measure; as, commensurate quantities.
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     2. Equal in measure or extent; proportionate.


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              Those who are persuaded that they shall continue
              forever, can not choose but aspire after a happiness
              commensurate to their duration.       --Tillotson.
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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Commensurate \Com*men"su*rate\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
     {Commensurated}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Commensurating}.] [Pref.
     com- + mensurate.]
     1. To reduce to a common measure. --Sir T. Browne.
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     2. To proportionate; to adjust. --T. Puller
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From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  commensurate
       adj : corresponding in size or degree or extent; "pay should be
             commensurate with the time worked" [ant: {incommensurate}]

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  112 Moby Thesaurus words for "commensurate":
     accordant, adequate, affirmative, agreeable, agreeing, alike,
     ample, analogical, analogous, answerable, at one, at par, au pair,
     barely sufficient, coexistent, coexisting, coherent, coincident,
     coinciding, collatable, commensurable, comparable, comparative,
     compatible, competent, concordant, concurring, conformable,
     congenial, congruent, congruous, consentaneous, consentient,
     consistent, consonant, cooperating, cooperative, correlative,
     correspondent, corresponding, decent, drawn, due, en rapport,
     enough, equal, equal to, equalized, equivalent, even, even stephen,
     fifty-fifty, fit, good, good enough, half-and-half, harmonious,
     in accord, in agreement, in rapport, in sync, in synchronization,
     inaccordance, inharmony, knotted, level, like, like-minded,
     matchable, minimal, minimum, much at one, nip and tuck, of a piece,
     of like mind, of one mind, on a footing, on a level, on a par,
     on all fours, on even ground, par, parallel, plenty,
     plenty good enough, positive, proportionable, proportionate, quits,
     reconcilable, relative, satisfactory, satisfying, self-consistent,
     similar, square, stalemated, substantial, sufficient,
     sufficient for, sufficing, suitable, symbiotic, symmetrical,
     synchronized, synchronous, tied, unanimous, uniform, unisonant,
     unisonous, up to