proportionable

[ pruh-pawr-shuh-nuh-buhl, -pohr- ]

adjective

1. being in due proportion; proportional.

Other Words From

• pro·portion·a·bili·ty pro·portion·a·ble·ness noun
• pro·portion·a·bly adverb
• nonpro·portion·a·ble adjective
• unpro·portion·a·ble adjective
• unpro·portion·a·bly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of proportionable¹

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

Example Sentences

We live up to our expectations, not to our possessions, and make a figure proportionable to what we may be, not what we are.

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These sentences have, I hear, given offence in my native town, and a proportionable pleasure to our rivals of Glasgow.

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The inhabitants of Magnesia, under Mount Sipylus, were held the next in sufferings, and had proportionable relief.

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Upon small offences he bestowed pardon; for such as were great he exercised proportionable severity.

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I expect measure hard enough and must furnish apace with proportionable armour.

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