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.