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incommensurate

adjective as in not proportional

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Example Sentences

Our inspiration was a two-dimensional pattern known as a Penrose tiling, which is an unusual pattern that contains two different types of tiles that repeat at two incommensurate intervals.

They are also plainly incommensurate with the scale of the overall problem.

It was incommensurate with the terrible excitement of which one was talking.

We do not find fault with men for being born in positions that confer powers upon them incommensurate with their rights.

Jack Horner, Esq., put forth some effort; and results and efforts are always more or less incommensurate.

The prince's gratitude seemed to me incommensurate with so small a service, and so I told him.

Tamely to wish a man a safe issue seemed to be a common compliment incommensurate with the occasion; and a bathos.

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On this page you'll find 10 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to incommensurate, such as: disproportionate, inadequate, incommensurable, unequal, and unfair.

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

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