measured
English
editPronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˈmɛʒəd/
Audio (Southern England): (file)
- (General American) IPA(key): /ˈmɛʒɚd/
- (regional US) IPA(key): /ˈmeɪʒɚd/
- Hyphenation: meas‧ured
Adjective
editmeasured (comparative more measured, superlative most measured)
- That has been determined by measurement.
- He ran over a measured mile.
- 1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
- Athelstan Arundel walked home all the way, foaming and raging. No omnibus, cab, or conveyance ever built could contain a young man in such a rage. His mother lived at Pembridge Square, which is four good measured miles from Lincoln's Inn.
- Deliberate but restrained.
- Synonyms: reasonable, temperate; see also Thesaurus:moderate
- He argued in measured tones.
- 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC, Canto V:
- But, for the unquiet heart and brain,
A use in measured language lies;
The sad mechanic exercise,
Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.
- 1989, Dolores Cannon, chapter 1, in Conversations with Nostradamus, page 8:
- This procedure was very tedious for me. Although she was definitely in a somnambulistic state, her answers were coming very slowly with carefully measured caution.
- (of poetry etc.) Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.
Hyponyms
editDerived terms
editTranslations
editdeliberate but restrained
Verb
editmeasured
- simple past and past participle of measure