incommensurate

English

Etymology

Etymology tree

Proto-Indo-European *né

Proto-Indo-European *n̥-

Proto-Italic *n̥-

Latin in-bor.

Middle English in-

English in-

English commensurate

English incommensurate

From in- + commensurate.

Adjective

incommensurate (comparative more incommensurate, superlative most incommensurate)

1. Out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else.
   • 1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 179:

     In the marriage of Inanna and Dumuzi we saw a commensurate relationship between the two, a marriage of Heaven and earth, but now in the fall of Inanna into hell, the relationship becomes incommensurate.

Antonyms

• commensurate

Derived terms

• incommensurately
• incommensurateness

Translations

out of proportion with

• Bulgarian: несъразмерен (bg) (nesărazmeren), несъответстващ (nesăotvetstvašt)
• Finnish: yhteismitaton
• Polish: niewspółmierny (pl) m, nieproporcjonalny m