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Incommensurate adj.

Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.

Not of equal of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants.

Synonyms: Inadequate; insufficient; disproportionate.

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Etymology of 'Incommensurate'

Collaborative International Dictionary of English 0.48

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"Incommensurate" Quotes from Famous Books

... much greater degree than might at first be imagined, is to be ascribed to small, but continual and regular impulses of pleasurable surprise from the metrical arrangement.—On the other hand (what it must be allowed will much more frequently happen) if the Poet's words should be incommensurate with the passion, and inadequate to raise the Reader to a height of desirable excitement, then (unless the Poet's choice of his metre has been grossly injudicious), in the feelings of pleasure which the Reader has been accustomed ...

— English Critical Essays - Nineteenth Century • Various

... as being commanded by the will, e.g. the exterior actions of speech or operation. Again, a human act is evil through lacking conformity with its due measure: and conformity of measure in a thing depends on a rule, from which if that thing depart, it is incommensurate. Now there are two rules of the human will: one is proximate and homogeneous, viz. the human reason; the other is the first rule, viz. the eternal law, which is God's reason, so to speak. Accordingly Augustine ...

— Summa Theologica, Part I-II (Pars Prima Secundae) - From the Complete American Edition • Saint Thomas Aquinas

... and gadding mind, totally incommensurate with her person. No one delighteth more than herself in country exercises and pastimes. I have passed many an agreeable holiday with her in her favorite park at Woodstock. She performs her part in these delightful ambulatory excursions by the aid of a portable garden-chair. ...

— The Atlantic Monthly, Vol. 12, No. 72, October, 1863 • Various

... LYTTON'S book, I for one shall not be surprised if things begin to happen. But at present the results that they have achieved, even upon their own showing and apart from all criticism of methods, seem quite incommensurate with the amount of trouble ...

— Punch, or the London Charivari, Vol. 146, March 25, 1914 • Various

Words linked to "Incommensurate" : disproportionate, incommensurable, commensurate