meas·ured

(mĕzh′ərd)

adj.

1. Determined by measurement: The measured distance was less than a mile.

2. Careful; restrained: spoke in measured words.

3. Calculated; deliberate: with measured irony.

4. Regular in rhythm and number: "A clock struck slowly in the house with a measured, solemn chime" (Thomas Wolfe).

5. Slow and stately.

6. Written in meter.

7. Music Mensural.

meas′ured·ly adv.

meas′ured·ness n.

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Adv.

measuredly - in a deliberate unhurried manner; "she was working deliberately"

deliberately

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