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

The experiment in Great Britain shows that a still greater reduction may be perfectly relied upon to give a rate of increase fully proportionable.

From Cheap Postage by Leavitt, Joshua

Upon which, I doubt, the Audience by the Roar of their Applause shew’d their proportionable Contempt of the Play they belong’d to.

From A Letter from Mr. Cibber to Mr. Pope by Cibber, Colley

This Satisfaction, which flows from the Merits of Jesus Christ, is full and intire, and proportionable to the Enormity of all the Sins of Mankind.

From The Memoirs of Charles-Lewis, Baron de Pollnitz, Volume IV Being the Observations He Made in His Late Travels from Prussia thro' Germany, Italy, France, Flanders, Holland, England, &C. in Letters to His Friend. Discovering Not Only the Present State of the Chief Cities and Towns; but the Characters of the Principal Persons at the Several Courts. by P?llnitz, Karl Ludwig von

The Shepheardes Calender Conteyning twelue Æglogues 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.

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.

From The Diplomatic Correspondence of the American Revolution (Volume VI) by Various