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Incongruent vs Commensurate - What's the difference?

incongruent | commensurate |

As adjectives the difference between incongruent and commensurate

is that incongruent is out of place, incompatible, inharmonious, not congruent while commensurate is of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

As a verb commensurate is

to reduce to a common measure.

incongruent

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • out of place, incompatible, inharmonious, not congruent
    • The yellow blazer was incongruent for the funeral.
    Her knowledge of world politics was incongruent in someone so young.
  • (mathematics) of or relating to two numbers that have different remainders when divided by a third number

    • Synonyms

    * incongruous, absurd, inappropriate

    See also

    * anachronistic ----

    commensurate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.
    • If it is essential in our interests to maintain a quasi-permanent position of power on the Asian mainland as against the Chinese then we must be prepared to continue to pay the present cost in Vietnam indefinitely and to meet any escalation on the other side with at least a commensurate escalation of commitment of our own. - Report to the President on Southeast Asia-Vietnam by Senator Mike Mansfield, December 18, 1962

    Antonyms

    * incommensurate

    Verb

    (commensurat)
  • To reduce to a common measure.
    • (Sir Thomas Browne)
  • To proportionate; to adjust.

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