proportionable

American  

[pruh-pawr-shuh-nuh-buhl, -pohr-] / prəˈpɔr ʃə nə bəl, -ˈpoʊr- /

adjective

1. being in due proportion; proportional.

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Other Word Forms

• nonproportionable adjective
• proportionability noun
• proportionableness noun
• proportionably adverb
• unproportionable adjective
• unproportionably adverb

Etymology

Origin of proportionable

1350–1400; Middle English proporcionable < Late Latin prōportiōnābilis. See proportion, -able

Example Sentences

From hour to hour, the fever went on, increasing alarmingly, accompanied by a proportionable diminution of the poor patient's strength, until, at length, the awful and fatal crisis arrived.

From Wilson's Tales of the Borders and of Scotland Volume 14 by Various

If some other parts of my body were but proportionable to them, I would turn my back to nobody; but I have a set of such legs as really makes me ashamed to see them.

From ?sop's Fables, Embellished with One Hundred and Eleven Emblematical Devices. by ?sop

Conteining twelue Aeglogues proportionable to the twelue Monethes.

From Catalogue of the Books Presented by Edward Capell to the Library of Trinity College in Cambridge by Greg, W. W.

And such hath been the judgment of this kingdom, as appears by that act of parliament which hath provided punishments proportionable to the quality of the offence.

From State Trials, Political and Social Volume 1 (of 2) by Stephen, Harry Lushington, Sir

Again, 'I very much doubt,' says Sir Joshua, 'whether a habit of drawing correctly what we see will not give a proportionable power of drawing correctly what we imagine.'

From The Use of a Box of Colours In a Practical Demonstration on Composition, Light and Shade, and Colour. by Willson, Harry