commensurately
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7.5
- adverb
- /kəˈmɛnʃərətli/
- Formal
:
proporcionalmente
- Population-based studies demonstrate that as iodine intake increases, the incidence of autoimmune thyroid disease increases commensurately.
- increase commensurately
Examples
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If our collective visualization of the future is weak and fragmented, then our capacity to create a future together will be commensurately diminished.
Academic text (1991) -
As such, the need for hospital caregivers will commensurately increase.
Academic text (2002) -
Those that break the rules must be punished commensurately.
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Physician visits commensurately increase with income.
Academic text (1991) -
Observations made with these instruments were commensurately impressive.
Academic text (1995) -
Ph.D. enrollments of this same group subsequently increased commensurately.
Academic text (1996) -
With the materialization of these projects, the stability of east-west trade will obviously be commensurately greater.
Academic text (1992) -
Commensurately, Britain saw the elimination or at least diminution of a national discussion of class.
Academic text (2016) -
Commensurately, with the deepening of the regime's authoritarianism, it appeared as if Kurdish and Islamic activism was on the wane.
Academic text (2000) -
The pay raises for employees should reflect their performance, increasing commensurately with their contributions.
Synonyms
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4.1
In a way that makes one thing match another in size or amount
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4.2
In a way that changes by the same amount as something else
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4.8
In a way that matches something else
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3.8
In a similar way or degree to something else
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5.1
In a way that has the same meaning or value as something else
In a way that matches the size or amount of something
Antonyms
How Proportionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
commensurately = commensurate (transparent) = commensurate + ly
Regular adverbial derivation from the adjective 'commensurate' using the productive suffix '-ly', so the meaning is directly predictable.
Etymology
Commensurately comes from the parts com- ('together') and mensura ('measure'), and it shares the same root as the everyday word measure. So, to act commensurately is to do something that 'matches' or is the right 'size' or amount for something else.