Measured

Full definition of measured

Adjective

1. That has been determined by measurement.
   He ran over a measured mile.
• 1893, Walter Besant, The Ivory Gate Chapter Prologue, 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.
   He argued in measured tones.
3. (of poetry etc) Rhythmically written in meter; metrical.

Verb

1. measured

   (past of measure)

Anagrams

• Madurese