Meanings
comparative more incommensurate · superlative most incommensurate
- Out of proportion (in size, degree or extent) with something else.
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.
1981, William Irwin Thompson, The Time Falling Bodies Take to Light: Mythology, Sexuality and the Origins of Culture, London: Rider/Hutchinson & Co., page 179
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivenot corresponding in size or degree or extent
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Indo-European*n̥-
- Proto-Italic*n̥-
- Latinin-
- Middle Englishin-
- Englishin-
- Englishcommensurate
- Englishincommensurate
From in- + commensurate.
Full word history & related roots →Translations
Bulgarian несъразмерен, несъответстващ
- несъразмерен (nesărazmeren)out of proportion with
- несъответстващ (nesăotvetstvašt)out of proportion with
Finnish yhteismitaton
- yhteismitatonout of proportion with
Polish niewspółmierny, nieproporcjonalny
- niewspółmiernyout of proportion with
- nieproporcjonalnyout of proportion with
Cite this entry
incommensurate. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/incommensurate
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