Crossword-Solution: INCOMMENSURABLE
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| Word | Word Type | Definition |
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| Incommensurable | a. | Not commensurable; having no common measure or standard of comparison; as, quantities are incommensurable when no third quantity can be found that is an aliquot part of both; the side and diagonal of a square are incommensurable with each other; the diameter and circumference of a circle are incommensurable. |
| Incommensurable | n. | One of two or more quantities which have no common measure. |
We have 20 clues for the answer “INCOMMENSURABLE”
| Clue | Answers |
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| impossible to measure or compare in value or size or excellence | 1 answer |
| incommensurate | 2 answers |
| incongruent | 4 answers |
| Heterogeneous | 16 answers |
| irrelative | 19 answers |
| at variance | 29 answers |
| out of place | 30 answers |
| disparate | 31 answers |
| utterly | 43 answers |
| Inconsistent | 61 answers |
| ACADEMIC ___ | 65 answers |
| Irrational | 65 answers |
| Antipathetic | 68 answers |
| Incongruous | 71 answers |
| Exceptional | 71 answers |
| inimical | 72 answers |
| Out of Order | 73 answers |
| Abnormal | 81 answers |
| Alone | 84 answers |
| Indifferent | 90 answers |
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Hint 1 meaning
Godlike; heavenly; excellent in the highest degree;
supremely admirable; apparently above what is human. In this
application, the word admits of comparison; as, the divinest mind. Sir
J. Davies.
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Hint 3 another clue
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Sentences with INCOMMENSURABLE (5)
These bordered on one of the water-highways of civilisation; a great fleet passed annually in their view, and of the shipwrecks of the world they were the scene and cause of a proportion wholly incommensurable to their size.
How, I ask once more, can you adjust satisfactorily the comparative wages or remuneration of the multitude of avocations, so unlike and so incommensurable, which are necessary for the service of society? In our day the market rate determined the price of labor of all sorts, as well as of goods.
SOCRATES: What was that, Theaetetus? THEAETETUS: Theodorus was writing out for us something about roots, such as the roots of three or five, showing that they are incommensurable by the unit: he selected other examples up to seventeen--there he stopped.
But all pleasures are not the same: they differ in quality as well as in quantity, and the pleasure which is superior in quality is incommensurable with the inferior.
ATHENIAN: But if some things are commensurable and others wholly incommensurable, and you think that all things are commensurable, what is your position in regard to them? CLEINIAS: Clearly, far from good.
Quotes with INCOMMENSURABLE (3)
I am convinced that God is love; this thought has for me a pristine lyrical validity. When it is present to me I am unspeakably happy, when it is absent I yearn for it more intensely than the lover for the beloved; but I do not have faith; this courage I lack. God's love is for me, both in a direct and inverse sense, incommensurable with the whole of reality. I am not coward enough to whimper and moan on that account, but neither am I underhand enough to deny that faith is so…
No, not of course at all — it is really all hocus-pocus. The days lengthen in the winter-time, and when the longest comes, the twenty-first of June, the beginning of summer, they begin to go downhill again, toward winter. You call that ‘of course’; but if one once loses hold of the fact that it is of course, it is quite frightening, you feel like hanging on to something. It seems like a practical joke — that spring begins at the beginning of winter, and autumn at the beginnin…
A young woman faces the decision of whether to marry a certain man whom she loves but who has deeply rooted, traditional ideas concerning marriage, family life, and the roles of men and women in each. A sober assessment of her future tell the woman that each of the two alternatives offers real but contrasting goods. One life offers the possibility of a greater degree of personal independence, the chance to pursue a career, perhaps more risk and adventure, while the other offe…