measured

adj — 3 senses

measured

adj

UK /ˈmɛʒəd/ · US /ˈmɛʒɚd/

1

That has been determined by measurement.

  • He ran over a measured mile.
  • 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.1892, Walter Besant, “Prologue: Who is Edmund Gray?”, in The Ivory Gate […], New York, N.Y.: Harper & Brothers, […], →OCLC, page 16:
2

Deliberate but restrained.

  • He argued in measured tones.
  • But, for the unquiet heart and brain, ⁠A use in measured language lies; ⁠The sad mechanic exercise, Like dull narcotics, numbing pain.1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:
1 more example
  • 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.1989, Dolores Cannon, chapter 1, in Conversations with Nostradamus, page 8:
3

Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.

Of poetry etc.

  • As we stood waiting for the departure time with the setting sun twinkling on the great brass dome of our 2-4-0, the sound of church bells was the only one apart from the measured tread of the guard slowly pacing towards his van, and, standing at an open window, I more than once heard the fireman's "Right away!" to his mate in acknowledgement of a desultory wave of the unfurled green flag.1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:
Derived terms
immeasured, measured drop, measuredly, measured mile, measuredness, nonmeasured, premeasured, unmeasured
Hyponyms
satellite-measured

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