inversely proportional

American  

[in-vurs-lee-pruh-pawr-shuh-nuhl] / ɪnˈvɜrs li prəˈpɔr ʃə nəl /

adjective

1. in inverse proportion (to something else); in a relation where the increase of one thing is accompanied by a corresponding decrease of another, and vice versa.

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Example Sentences

I do get a thrill out of kitchen gadgets whose usefulness is inversely proportional to the amount of money I spent on them.

From Washington Post

The stakes are inversely proportional for the United States and Russia; Ukraine matters a lot to them, a little to us; it’s next to Russia, far from America.

From Washington Post

"And, in fact, all stars follow the rule that the length of time they can exist as a star is inversely proportional to their mass - meaning, the more massive a star, the faster it uses up its fuel. And so these early stars might have only lasted at most a million years or so."

From BBC

Fairly or not, people's reverence for weddings tends to be inversely proportional to their number.

From Washington Post

“As the city reopens, our in-store versus online sales are inversely proportional. People are back to discovering a book that chooses them from the shelf, rather than choosing a book from the website. We’re getting out of the red, and that light at the end of the tunnel may not actually be a train.”

From Los Angeles Times