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An arbitrary standard, especially one that is forced upon people for the sake of conformity and involves the sacrifice of what is useful.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Examples
- 1787, Anna Seward, letter to Francis Noel Clarke Mundy dated 10 October, 1787, in Letters of Anna Seward, Edinburgh: Archibald Constable, 1811, Volume 1, p. 342, Merely to jingle common-place ideas in rhyme, may be easy enough; but to make fine sense, animated and appropriate description, and beautiful imagery, recline gracefully on that Procrustean bed, is about as easy as to compose music like Handel or Hedyen, and to paint like Reynolds, Romney, and Fuzeli.
Meaning relationships
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Alternative letter-case form of procrustean bed.
Definition source: English Wiktionary via Wiktextract
Usage: alt-of
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a standard that is enforced uniformly without regard to individuality
Definition source: Princeton WordNet 3.0
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Meaning relationships
Synonyms: procrustean standard, procrustean rule
Antonyms: none provided
Broader terms: standard, criterion, measure, touchstone
From the Greek myth about Procrustes, who assaulted people to make their body height conform to the length of a particular iron bed; see details at Wikipedia.
Across languages
Translations
13 source translations are retained for this English entry.
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Armenian:
պրոկրուստյան մահիճ
(prokrustyan mahič)
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Danish:
prokrustesseng
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Dutch:
procrustesbed
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Estonian:
Prokrustese säng
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Finnish:
Prokrusteen vuode
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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French:
lit de Procuste
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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German:
Prokrustesbett
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Hebrew:
מִטַּת סְדוֹם
(mitát sdom)
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Norwegian Bokmål:
prokrustesseng
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Norwegian Nynorsk:
prokrustesseng
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Polish:
prokrustowe łoże
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Russian:
прокрустово ло́же
(prokrustovo lóže)
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
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Ukrainian:
прокру́стове ло́же
(prokrústove lóže)
— arbitrary standard to which compliance is enforced
