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Incommensurate   Listen
adjective
Incommensurate  adj.  
1.
Not commensurate; not admitting of a common measure; incommensurable.
2.
Not of equal of sufficient measure or extent; not adequate; as, our means are incommensurate to our wants.
Synonyms: Inadequate; insufficient; disproportionate.





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"Incommensurate" Quotes from Famous Books



... able to see a connection between apprehending those difficulties, however keenly, and multiplying them to any extent, and doubting the doctrines to which they are attached. Ten thousand difficulties do not make one doubt, as I understand the subject; difficulty and doubt are incommensurate. There of course may be difficulties in the evidence; but I am speaking of difficulties intrinsic to the doctrines, or to their compatibility with each other. A man may be annoyed that he cannot ...
— Apologia pro Vita Sua • John Henry Newman


Words linked to "Incommensurate" :   commensurate, unequal


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