Antonyms for half measure


Grammar : Noun


Definition of half measure

  • As in compromise : noun agreement, give-and-take
Example sentences :
  • The benighted instincts of the Shaunekuks know no half measure.
  • Extract from : « The Heart of Unaga » by Ridgwell Cullum
  • If I don't, it will be a half and half measure which will satisfy no one.
  • Extract from : « The Life of Florence Nightingale vol. 1 of 2 » by Edward Tyas Cook
  • Even when we think we are thinking in words, we do so only in half measure.
  • Extract from : « Essays on Life, Art and Science » by Samuel Butler
  • This half measure was as ineffective as was to have been expected.
  • Extract from : « Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 9, Slice 7 » by Various
  • "I'll go on half measure and let Mr. Verslun have the other half," laughed Holman.
  • Extract from : « The White Waterfall » by James Francis Dwyer
  • Jelly from green grapes needs one half measure more of sugar.
  • Extract from : « Science in the Kitchen. » by Mrs. E. E. Kellogg
  • The Constituent Assembly had committed a gross error in stopping at a half measure in reforming the clergy in France.
  • Extract from : « History of the Girondists, Volume I » by Alphonse de Lamartine
  • But this was only a half measure: Spain still continued the privilege of retaining the traffic south of that limit.
  • Extract from : « The History of England in Three Volumes, Vol.III. » by E. Farr and E. H. Nolan
  • And often, in spite of the orders of Maitre Lucas, he would economize on the nag's food, only giving him half measure.
  • Extract from : « Original Short Stories, Volume 12 (of 13) » by Guy de Maupassant
  • At best it can be regarded as only a half measure toward the abolition of the trade in intoxicants.
  • Extract from : « Society » by Henry Kalloch Rowe

Synonyms for half measure

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