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Definition: Incommensurate |
IncommensurateAdjective1. (often followed by `with') not corresponding in size or degree or extent; "a reward incommensurate with his effort". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "incommensurate" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1822. (references) |
Synonyms: IncommensurateSynonyms: disproportionate, insufficient. (additional references) |
| Antonym: commensurate (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Difference | Incommensurable, incommensurate. |
Incomparability | Adjective: incommensurable, incommensurate; incomparable; different; |
Numeration | Adjective: numeral, numerical; arithmetical, analytic, algebraic, statistical, numerable, computable, calculable; commensurable, commensurate; incommensurable, incommensurate, innumerable, unfathomable, infinite. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
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| "Incommensurate" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 71.43% of the time. "Incommensurate" is used about 7 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adjective (general or positive) | 71.43% | 5 | 157,705 |
| Lexical Verb (base form) | 28.57% | 2 | 245,945 |
| Total | 100.00% | 7 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
incommensurate | 15 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "incommensurate"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Albanian | shpërpjesëtimor, jo në përpjesëtim. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Arabic | غير كافئ (poor, short), غير ملائم (awkward, awkwardly, clumsy, disadvantageous, inadequate, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, inconvenient, inept, unfortunate, unfriendly, unhandy, unseemly, unsuitable, untidy, untimely), غير متكافئ (morphologic, unequal), غير متساو (disparity, unequable, unequal, unlike). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Bulgarian | несъответствуващ (inadequate, insufficient, unsuitable), несъезмерим (incommensurable), недостатъчен (deficient, exiguous, imperfect, inadequate, insufficient, scanty, scarce, short, skimpy, slender, slim, wanting). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Farsi | ناپسند (Absurd, Chilish, Unappealing), نامناسب (Improper, Inapplicable, Inappropriate, Inapt, Incompetent, Infelicitous, Inopportune, Malapropos, Unapt, Unfit, Unhandsome, Unmeet, Unrighteous, Unsuitable, Untoward), نارسا (Highland, Inaudible, Insufficient, Unexpressive, Unfledged), بی تناسب (Disproportion, Grotesque). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
French | insuffisant pour, inadéquat (inadequate, inappropriate, incommensurately), sans rapport (inconsequential), disproportionné. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
German | unangemessen (disproportionate, inadequate, inadequately, undue, unreasonable, unsuitable). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ασύμμετροσ, δυσανάλογοσ (proportionless). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hebrew | לא מספיק (deficient, inadequate, insufficient, under), שאי ו שו". (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | aránytalan (disproportionate, disproportioned, ill-proportioned, lopsided, undue, unequal, unproportional). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | inadeguato (inadequate, inappropriate, insufficient, unequal), sproporzionato (disproportionate), non paragonabile. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Manx | nagh vel co-reir. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | incommensurateay incomensurável (measureless, unfathomable), desigual (different, discrown, disparate, hackly, inequable, joggly, lacerated, lopsided, one sided, patchy, ragged, rough, rugged, scratchy, shifting, snatchy, spotty, unequable, unequal, uneven). (various references) incomensurabil (huge, immensurable, incalculable, incommensurable), necorespunzãtor (abnormal, ill, improper, inadequate, inappropriate, incongruous, unsatisfactory), disproporţionat (disproportionate). (various references) несоразмерный (disproportionate, incommensurable). (various references) nemerljiv (immeasurable, imponderable, measureless, spanless). (various references) inconmensurable (immeasurable, incommensurable), sin proporciones, desproporcionado (disproportional, disproportionate, out of scale, undue). (various references) inte proportionell, inkommensurabel (incommensurable), otillräcklig (deficient, feckless, inadequate, insufficient, scanty, scarce, unequal, unsatisfactory), ojämförbar (incommensurable, unequaled). (various references) yetersiz (defective, deficient, disqualified, exiguous, half-way, handicapped, inadequate, incapable, incompetent, inconclusive, inefficient, ineligible, insufficient, meager, meagre, poorly, powerless, scant, scanty, scrimp, scrimpy, shoestring, short, skimp, skimpy, slender, slim, spare, unequal, unfit, unqualified, unsatisfactory, unsatisfied, unsatisfying), oransız (asymmetrical, disproportionate, incommensurable, inordinate, irrational, lop-sided, unequal, unproportional), kusurlu (culpable, defective, faulty, imperfect, inaccurate, incomplete, malformed, peccant, tainted), kıyaslanamaz (beyond compare, incommensurable, incomparable), eksik (defective, deficiency, deficient, gappy, imperfect, inadequate, incompetent, incomplete, insufficient, lacking, lame, less, minus, missing, missing part, out, ragged, scrimp, scrimpy, short, shortfall, shy, sketchy, skimp, skimpy, wanting), ölçülemez (imponderable, incommensurable, unmeasurable). (various references) невідповідний (anomalous, contradictory, discrepant, disharmonious, inadequate, inappropriate, incoherent, incongruous, unequal), непорівнянний (incomparable). (various references) không tương xứng (inadequate). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||||
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"Incommensurate" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: incommensurates. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| Words rhyming with "incommensurate" (pronounced 'In`com*men"su*rate'): Aberrate, Accorporate, Accurate, Administrate, Adumbrate, Aggrate, Allatrate, Atterrate, Aurate, Berate, Bicalcarate, Bicorporate, Biforate, Biquadrate, Biserrate, Bitartrate, Borate, Butyrate, Calamistrate, Calcitrate, Calibrate, Capistrate, Caprate, Carbohydrate, Castrate, Celebrate, Centumvirate, Cerate, Cerebrate, Chlorate, Cicurate, Circumgyrate, Cirrate, Citrate, Clathrate, Commemorate, Commigrate, Comparate, Concelebrate, Conquadrate, Constuprate, Contrate, Contriturate, Cribrate, Cryohydrate, Curate, Cyanurate, Decemvirate, Deconcentrate, Deconsecrate, Decorate, Dedecorate, Deflorate, Dehydrate, Deintegrate, Delibrate, Demigrate, Demonstrate, Denigrate, Dentirostrate, Deplorate, Deprostrate, Desecrate, Desulphurate, Detenebrate, Dextrogyrate, Directorate, Disconsecrate, Discorporate, Disparate, Disrate, Dulcorate, Duumvirate, Edulcorate, Elucubrate, Equilibrate, Equiparate, Erostrate, Evibrate, Evirate, Exarate, Exaugurate, Execrate, Exorate, Explorate, Exprobrate, Fenestrate, Ferrate, Flagrate, Flustrate, Fulcrate, Fulgurate, Fumarate, Gemmiflorate, Glabrate, Hydrargyrate, Hydrochlorate, Hydrotellurate, Immensurate, immigrate, Imperate, Impignorate, inaccurate, Inamorate, inelaborate, Inseparate, Instaurate, integrate, Inumbrate, invertebrate, irate, Latrate, Laurate, Levogyrate, Liturate, Lorate, lustrate, magistrate, Margarate, Memorate, Mensurate, migrate, Misconsecrate, Misrate, Morate, narrate, Nitrate, Oblatrate, obsecrate, Obturate, Obumbrate, Oversaturate, Oxycrate, Palprbrate, Peragrate, Perchlorate, Perfuncturate, Perorate, Perpetrate, Picrate, Poundrate, Prefigurate, Premonstrate, Prorate, Pterygoquadrate, Pyroborate, Pyrotartrate, Quindecemvirate, Recelebrate, Reconcentrate, reconsecrate, Redemonstrate, Registrate, Reinaugurate, Reincorporate, reintegrate, Rememorate, Remigrate, Remorate, Restaurate, Revibrate, Rhabarbarate, Roborate, Saccharate, Sacrate, second-rate, Semicastrate, Septemvirate, sequestrate, Soporate, Sperate, Stearate, Stercorate, Stuprate, Subministrate, Subquadrate, Succinurate, Sucrate, Sulphaurate, Sulphydrate, Supersaturate, tartrate, Tellurate, Terebrate, titrate, Transcorporate, Transfigurate, Transforate, Transmigrate, Trisnitrate, Tristearate, Triturate, triumvirate, Umbrate, Unaccurate, Unconsecrate, Ungrate, Unmagistrate, Urate, Vaporate, Veratrate, Vigintivirate. (additional references) |
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "a-c-e-e-i-m-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
-2 letters: anticonsumer, commensurate, commentaries, countermines, enumerations, mountaineers, nonmetameric. | |
-3 letters: auctioneers, commiserate, countermine, enantiomers, enumeration, enunciators, innumerates, manometries, mensuration, mountaineer, numerations, renominates, renunciates. | |
-4 letters: auctioneer, centauries, centurions, comminutes, consummate, containers, contemners, continuers, counterman, countermen, cremations, crenations, enantiomer, encounters, enunciates, enunciator, immanences, increments, innumerate, interocean, inurements, manometers, manometric, manticores, maumetries, mentioners, mincemeats, minestrone, monetarism, monstrance, nanometers, nectarines, numeracies, numeration, osmeterium, renominate, renunciate, stramonium, transience, unromantic. | |
-5 letters: aconitums, ammocetes, ammonites, amusement, ancienter, anointers, anoretics, antimeres, antiserum, autoecism, canneries, cannister, canonries, carotenes, castoreum, cauteries, ceintures, cementums, centesimo, centiares, centuries, centurion, cinereous, cisternae, coinmates, comminute, communise, communist, commuters, consenter, constrain, container, contemner, continuer, continues, costumier, coumarins, countians, countries, courantes, courtesan, creamiest, creatines, creations, cremation, crenation, cretinous, cretonnes, crummiest, ecumenism, ecumenist, encomiast, encomiums, encounter, encrimson, entrances, enunciate, enuretics, erections, esoterica, estuarine, immanence, immatures, incenters, increment, innermost, insurance, intercoms, inurement, iterances, manicures, mannerism, mannerist, manometer, manticore, meantimes, meconiums, mentioner, metameric, mincemeat, minuteman, minutemen, miscreant, miscreate, mnemonics, moistener, monuments, mortmains, mountains, mucronate, muniments, muscarine, mutineers, nanometer, narceines, nectaries, nectarine, nectarous, neoterics, neurotics, neutrinos, neutronic, nocturnes, nominates, noncrimes, nonmetric, nonsecure, numerates, ornaments, osmeteria, outrances, reactions, reanoints, recension, recommits, remoisten, renascent, renounces, resection, resonance, romantics, rousement, ruminants, ruminates, runcinate, sarmentum, saturnine, secretion, suctorian, summation, summiteer, tanneries, tenacious, tenancies, tensioner, transonic, truancies, uncertain, uncreates. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-c-e-e-i-m-m-n-n-o-r-s-t-u" | |
+3 letters: intercommunicates. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)49 6E 63 6F 6D 6D 65 6E 73 75 72 61 74 65 |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01001001 01101110 01100011 01101111 01101101 01101101 01100101 01101110 01110011 01110101 01110010 01100001 01110100 01100101 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)I n c o m m e n s u r a t e |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0049 006E 0063 006F 006D 006D 0065 006E 0073 0075 0072 0061 0074 0065 |
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)4380698179797180858784678671 |
| 1. Definition 2. Synonyms 3. Usage: Commercial 4. Usage Frequency | 5. Expressions: Internet 6. Translations: Modern 7. Derivations 8. Rhymes | 9. Anagrams 10. Orthography 11. Bibliography |
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