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measured
[ mezh-erd ]
adjective
- ascertained or apportioned by measure:
The race was over the course of a measured mile.
- accurately regulated or proportioned.
- regular or uniform, as in movement; rhythmical:
to walk with measured strides.
- deliberate and restrained; careful; carefully weighed or considered:
measured language; measured terms.
- in the form of meter or verse; metrical.
measured
/ ˈmɛʒəd /
adjective
- determined by measurement
- slow, stately, or leisurely
- carefully considered; deliberate
Derived Forms
- ˈmeasuredness, noun
- ˈmeasuredly, adverb
Other Words From
- measured·ly adverb
- measured·ness noun
- well-measured adjective
Word History and Origins
Example Sentences
Google, with its interests in online advertising, is taking a more measured approach and proposing solutions like FLoC before they also turn off 3rd party cookie support in their browser.
Perhaps they want a cheerful, measured type, like Mike D’Antoni.
They acknowledge that change and disorder are going to be difficult, prepare accordingly, and then trudge forward with a measured but positive attitude nonetheless.
You can also save yourself extra hassle by selecting products that are pre-measured or ready to go upon arrival.
While we have made measured progress during the past several years under Tom Herman’s leadership, Chris has recommended to the university president, Jay Hartzell, that UT make a coaching change to get us on track to achieving our ambitious goals.
One of the honor guard approached with slow, measured steps and presented the flag to a uniformed captain.
However, several probes—most recently the Curiosity rover—have measured methane in the Martian atmosphere.
This is important in the concentration process, which takes place by means of an extraordinarily measured period of boiling.
Like so many of the poor, he measured his future by hours and days.
The output of CO2 by industrialization and other human activities—also rising, also measured.
For we have, alas, no means of finding out what the quantity of labor is and how it can be measured.
That of the female just killed measured four feet five inches in length and four feet in breadth.
"I cannot object, gentlemen," said the Frenchman, as he carefully measured them and weighed them in either hand.
He had received no invitation to go down to The Warren, but his father the Justice had written him in no measured terms.
Then, measured by inhabitants, it was the fifth town in Ireland; now it is the eighth.
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