Incommensurate (Adjective)
Meaning
Not corresponding in size or degree or extent; "a reward incommensurate with his effort".
Classification
All adjective clusters.
Examples
- The punishment was incommensurate with the minor offense committed by the teenager.
- Her salary was incommensurate with the amount of work and responsibility she had taken on.
- The small fine imposed on the company was incommensurate with the severity of the environmental damage it had caused.
- The reward for winning the contest was incommensurate with the time and effort required to participate.
- The compensation offered to the victims was incommensurate with the suffering they had endured.