Associations to the word «Commensurate»

Wiktionary

COMMENSURATE, adjective. Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
COMMENSURATE, verb. To reduce to a common measure.
COMMENSURATE, verb. To proportionate; to adjust.

Dictionary definition

COMMENSURATE, adjective. Corresponding in size or degree or extent; "pay should be commensurate with the time worked".

Wise words

Words - so innocent and powerless as they are, as standing in a dictionary, how potent for good and evil they become in the hands of one who knows how to combine them.
Nathaniel Hawthorne