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View definitions for commensurate

commensurate

adjective as in adequate, corresponding

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Nevertheless, commensurate reductions in greenhouse gas emissions have not been made.

University graduates often find they cannot get jobs commensurate with their education skills.

The titles themselves suggest palpable weirdness and un-wellness, a departure from reality commensurate with joining a cult.

But it has not delivered at a level of ambition commensurate with the scale of the crisis.

The effort invested in “getting it right” should be commensurate with the importance of the decision.

Its blessings were not commensurate with its evils; but the evils were less than those which previously existed.

He had become suddenly a person of substance-an associate of men of consequence, with a commensurate income.

The Jews confessed their sins to their rabbis, and the penance or punishment was commensurate with their guilt.

If they have any evil design to which there is no ordinary legal power commensurate, they bring it into Parliament.

It is, indeed, difficult for the pastor to adopt a policy commensurate with modern demands.

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On this page you'll find 44 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to commensurate, such as: comparable, compatible, consistent, proportionate, sufficient, and appropriate.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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