incommensurate
Lacking common measure
Incommensurate means not proportionate or adequate to something else: The punishment was incommensurate with the crime.
Two things are incommensurate when they can't be properly measured against each other or when one falls short of what the other requires.
The word often appears in contexts of fairness or balance—salaries incommensurate with responsibilities, rewards incommensurate with effort.
Not the same
- asymmetricalNot equal on both sides
- lopsidedUnequally balanced
- imbalancedUnevenly distributed or proportioned
- skewedAsymmetrically shifted
uneven · mismatched · disparate · incongruent · discrepant · unbalanced · misaligned · divergent
Unable to exist together
- irreconcilableImpossible to resolve together
- incongruousNot fitting together harmoniously
- discordantLacking musical agreement
- inharmoniousLacking pleasing agreement
inconsistent · clashing · conflicting · mismatched · at-odds · antithetical · opposed · contradictory
Below required quantity
- inadequateNot sufficient for purpose
- deficientHaving too little
- lackingBeing without something
- wantingAbsent or insufficient
unequal · short · unworthy · undeserving · below · beneath · undersized · substandard
Beyond any quantification
- noncomparableWithout degrees of variation
- incomparableWithout equal or rival
- unmeasurableCannot be quantified
- unquantifiableCannot be numerically expressed
dimensionless · irrational · unscalable · dissimilar · heterogeneous · unlike
unequal
Not the same
- asymmetricalNot equal on both sides
- lopsidedUnequally balanced
- imbalancedUnevenly distributed or proportioned
skewed · uneven · mismatched · disparate · incongruent · discrepant · unbalanced · misaligned · divergent · asymmetric
incompatible
Unable to exist together
- irreconcilableImpossible to resolve together
- incongruousNot fitting together harmoniously
- discordantLacking musical agreement
inharmonious · inconsistent · clashing · conflicting · mismatched · at-odds · antithetical · opposed · contradictory · dissonant
insufficient
Below required quantity
- inadequateNot sufficient for purpose
- deficientHaving too little
- lackingBeing without something
wanting · unequal · short · unworthy · undeserving · below · beneath · undersized · substandard · unmatched
immeasurable
Beyond any quantification
- noncomparableWithout degrees of variation
- incomparableWithout equal or rival
- unmeasurableCannot be quantified
unquantifiable · dimensionless · irrational · unscalable · dissimilar · heterogeneous · unlike
incommensuratecommensurate
Equal in measure
proportionate · proportional · appropriate · fitting · suitable
incommensuratecoextensive
Having identical boundaries
coterminous · conterminous · corresponding · coincident · congruent
proportionate, commensurate, disproportionate, commensurately