COMMENSURATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does commensurate mean? 

• COMMENSURATE (adjective)
  The adjective COMMENSURATE has 1 sense:

1. corresponding in size or degree or extent

  Familiarity information: COMMENSURATE used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• COMMENSURATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Corresponding in size or degree or extent

Context example:

pay should be commensurate with the time worked

Similar:

coextensive; conterminous; coterminous (being of equal extent or scope or duration)

commensurable (capable of being measured by a common standard)

proportionate (agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree)

Also:

equal (having the same quantity, value, or measure as another)

Antonym:

incommensurate (not corresponding in size or degree or extent)

Derivation:

commensurateness (the relation of corresponding in degree or size or amount)

 Context examples 

A registered nurse who has passed an examination to show possession of a body of knowledge commensurate with competent practice as awarded by The Board of Certification in Emergency Nursing.

(Certified Emergency Nurse, NCI Thesaurus)

Things were going well except for one area of life: The money you were being paid was not commensurate with the effort you were putting into your job.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

So White Fang could only eat his heart in bitterness and develop a hatred and malice commensurate with the ferocity and indomitability of his nature.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Since August 11, Uranus has been in retrograde, so this likely means that you’ve been working hard but possibly not seeing results commensurate to your efforts.

(AstrologyZone.com, by Susan Miller)

Its vanished trees, the trees that had made way for Gatsby's house, had once pandered in whispers to the last and greatest of all human dreams; for a transitory enchanted moment man must have held his breath in the presence of this continent, compelled into an aesthetic contemplation he neither understood nor desired, face to face for the last time in history with something commensurate to his capacity for wonder.

(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)