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Suitable vs Commensurate - What's the difference?

suitable | commensurate |

As adjectives the difference between suitable and commensurate

is that suitable is having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion while commensurate is of a proportionate or similar measurable standard.

As a verb commensurate is

to reduce to a common measure.

suitable

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Having sufficient or the required properties for a certain purpose or task; appropriate to a certain occasion.

    • Synonyms

    * fit for purpose (British) * up to standard (British)

    Antonyms

    * unsuitable

    Derived terms

    * suitability

    See also

    * fit * meet * appropriate * apt * pertinent * seemly * eligible * consonant * corresponding * congruous

    External links

    * * 1000 English basic words

    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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