proportionable

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

adjective

1. being in due proportion; proportional.

Other Word Forms

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

Word History and Origins

Origin of proportionable¹

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

Example Sentences

The word derives from the Latin meaning “due mixture,” and one Oxford English Dictionary definition calls it “a moderate and proportionable mixture of elements in a compound.”

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The number of children attending the schools is doubtless proportionably great.

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France has, and ought to have, a great weight with America and 371 Holland, but other powers might have proportionable weight if they would have proportional merit.

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No appointment to office of any kind was made, except in consideration of a proportionable sum paid down into her own coffers.

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One great ground of confidence and support has, indeed, been struck from under my feet; but I have made it up to myself by proportionable pertinacity of opinion.

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