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English
Etymology
From commensurate + -ly.
Adverb
commensurately (comparative more commensurately, superlative most commensurately)
- In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate.
- Synonyms: adequately, proportionately
2019 February 27, Drachinifel, 12:25 from the start, in The Battle of Samar - Odds? What are those?, archived from the original on 3 November 2022:Admiral Kurita has no identification charts for escort carriers, and so, assumes that the distant targets are fleet carriers. Commensurately, by scale, their escorts must either be battleships or cruisers. The Japanese forces therefore continue to load armor-piercing rounds, what will turn out to be a very fortuitous mistake for their targets for as long as it lasts.
2025 July 21, Jean Garnett, “The Trouble With Wanting Men”, in The New York Times, →ISSN, archived from the original on 21 July 2025:One thing heterofatalism reflects is a persistent lack of faith that those we desire will be able to recognize us as commensurately human.
- With equal measure or extent.
Translations
In a commensurate manner.
With equal measure or extent.
References
- William Dwight Whitney, Benjamin E Smith, editors (1911), “commensurately”, in The Century Dictionary , New York, N.Y.: The Century Co., →OCLC.
- “commensurately”, in Webster’s Revised Unabridged Dictionary, Springfield, Mass.: G. & C. Merriam, 1913, →OCLC.