measured

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʒəd/

  • Audio (Southern England):

    (file)

• (General American) IPA^(key): /ˈmɛʒɚd/
• (regional US) IPA^(key): /ˈmeɪʒɚd/
• Hyphenation: meas‧ured

measured (comparative more measured, superlative most measured)

1. 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.

2. Deliberate but restrained.

   Synonyms: reasonable, temperate; see also Thesaurus:moderate

   He argued in measured tones.

   • 1850, [Alfred, Lord Tennyson], “Canto V”, in In Memoriam, London: Edward Moxon, […], →OCLC:

     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.

3. (of poetry etc.) Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.
   • 1955 January, R. S. McNaught, “From the Severn to the Mersey by Great Western”, in Railway Magazine, page 19:

     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.

• satellite-measured

• measured drop
• measured mile

measured

1. simple past and past participle of measure

• Madurese, emerauds, made sure