Word Meanings - CONTERMINOUS - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale.
Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of CONTERMINOUS)
- Commensurate
- Equal
- adequate
- sufficient
- coextensive
- conterminous
- Convertible
- Identical
- commensurate
- equivalent
- equipollent
Related words: (words related to CONTERMINOUS)
- EQUALIZER
One who, or that which, equalizes anything. - IDENTICAL
1. The same; the selfsame; the very same; not different; as, the identical person or thing. I can not remember a thing that happened a year ago, without a conviction . . . that I, the same identical person who now remember that event, did then - CONTERMINOUS
Having the same bounds, or limits; bordering upon; contiguous. This conformed so many of them as were conterminous to the colonies and garrisons, to the Roman laws. Sir M. Hale. - EQUALIZE
1. To make equal; to cause to correspond, or be like, in amount or degree as compared; as, to equalize accounts, burdens, or taxes. One poor moment can suffice To equalize the lofty and the low. Wordsworth. No system of instruction will completely - EQUALITY
Exact agreement between two expressions or magnitudes with respect to quantity; -- denoted by the symbol =; thus, a = x signifies that a contains the same number and kind of units of measure that x does. Confessional equality. See under - CONVERTIBLE
1. Capable of being converted; susceptible of change; transmutable; transformable. Minerals are not convertible into another species, though of the same genus. Harvey. 2. Capable of being exchanged or interchanged; reciprocal; interchangeable. - EQUIVALENTLY
In an equal manner. - IDENTICALLY
In an identical manner; with respect to identity. "Identically the same." Bp. Warburton. "Identically different." Ross. - SUFFICIENTLY
To a sufficient degree; to a degree that answers the purpose, or gives content; enough; as, we are sufficiently supplied with food; a man sufficiently qualified for the discharge of his official duties. - ADEQUATE
Equal to some requirement; proportionate, or correspondent; fully sufficient; as, powers adequate to a great work; an adequate definition. Ireland had no adequate champion. De Quincey. Syn. -- Proportionate; commensurate; sufficient; suitable; - ADEQUATELY
In an adequate manner. - COEXTENSIVE
Equally extensive; having as, consciousness and knowledge are coextensive. Sir W. Hamilton. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ly, adv. -- Co`ex*ten"sive*ness, n. - EQUIVALENT
Equal in measure but not admitting of superposition; -- applied to magnitudes; as, a square may be equivalent to a triangle. (more info) aequivalere to have equal power; aequus equal + valere to be strong, 1. Equal in wortir or value, force, power, - COMMENSURATENESS
The state or quality of being commensurate. Foster. - EQUIPOLLENT
Having equivalent signification and reach; expressing the same thing, but differently. (more info) 1. Having equal power or force; equivalent. Bacon. - CONVERTIBLENESS
The state of being convertible; convertibility. - EQUAL
Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; -- opposed to mixed. (more info) 1. Agreeing in quantity, size, quality, degree, value, etc.; having the same magnitude, the same value, the same degree, etc.; -- applied - COMMENSURATE
1. To reduce to a common measure. Sir T. Browne. 2. To proportionate; to adjust. T. Puller - ADEQUATENESS
The quality of being adequate; suitableness; sufficiency; adequacy. - COMMENSURATELY
1. In a commensurate manner; so as to be equal or proportionate; adequately. 2. With equal measure or extent. Goodwin. - INSUFFICIENTLY
In an insufficient manner or degree; unadequately. - UNEQUALABLE
Not capable of being equaled or paralleled. Boyle. - INEQUALITY
An expression consisting of two unequal quantities, with the sign of inequality between them; as, the inequality 2 < 3, or 4 > 1. (more info) 1. The quality of being unequal; difference, or want of equality, in any respect; lack of uniformity; - RECONVERTIBLE
Capable of being reconverted; convertible again to the original form or condition. - INCONVERTIBLE
Not convertible; not capable of being transmuted, changed into, or exchanged for, something else; as, one metal is inconvertible into another; bank notes are sometimes inconvertible into specie. Walsh. - UNEQUALNESS
The quality or state of being unequal; inequality; unevenness. Jer. Taylor. - SUBEQUAL
Nearly equal. - INCONVERTIBLENESS
Inconvertibility. - INTERCONVERTIBLE
Convertible the one into the other; as, coin and bank notes are interconvertible. - COEQUALITY
The state of being on an equality, as in rank or power. - UNEQUALED
Not equaled; unmatched; unparalleled; unrivaled; exceeding; surpassing; -- in a good or bad sense; as, unequaled excellence; unequaled ingratitude or baseness.