| 单词 | commensurate |
| 释义 | commensurate (once / 4000 pages) adj The word commensurate has to do with things that are similar in size and therefore appropriate. Many people think the death penalty is a commensurate punishment for murder. In other words, the penalty fits the crime. When things are commensurate, they're fair, appropriate, and the right size. If you got a ticket for jaywalking, you shouldn't get ten years in prison — that penalty is not commensurate with the crime. The word commensurate is usually followed by with or to; one thing is commensurate with or to another. WORD FAMILYcommensurate: commensurable, commensurately, commensurateness, incommensurate+/commensurable: commensurably, incommensurable/incommensurable: incommensurably USAGE EXAMPLESThis extreme threat would seem to require a commensurately radical response — some way to change the outcome. Washington Post(Dec 19, 2016) Yet Chinese consumers also hold foreign companies to higher standards, and are commensurately sensitive to perceived slights. Los Angeles Times(Dec 05, 2016) “The scale of the investment required is commensurate with the scale of the challenge,” the study said. New York Times(Dec 01, 2016) adj corresponding in size or degree or extent pay should be commensurate with the time worked Syn|Ant coextensive, conterminous, coterminous being of equal extent or scope or duration commensurablecapable of being measured by a common standard proportionateagreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree equalhaving the same quantity, value, or measure as another incommensurate not corresponding in size or degree or extent disproportionatenot proportionate incommensurablenot having a common factor unequalpoorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure |
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