proportioned

[ pruh-pawr-shuhnd, -pohr- ]

/ prəˈpɔr ʃənd, -ˈpoʊr- /

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adjective

adjusted to proper proportion or relation.

having proportions as specified: a badly proportioned room.

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Origin of proportioned

First recorded in 1350–1400, proportioned is from the Middle English word proporcioned.See proportion, -ed²

non·pro·por·tioned, adjectiveun·der·pro·por·tioned, adjectiveun·pro·por·tioned, adjectivewell-pro·por·tioned, adjective

His cropped leather jackets with their dolman sleeves were perfectly proportioned over his attenuated, back-slit skirts.
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The deftness of Smith's drafts(wo)manship can often be overlooked in her E.T.-proportioned figures.
A Woman in Full|Chloe Malle|February 18, 2010|DAILY BEAST
Xtra Insight: Former Clinton Speechwriter Ted Widmer on Obama's Biblically-Proportioned Success.
Photo Album: Obama's Trip to the Mideast and Europe|The Daily Beast|June 3, 2009|DAILY BEAST
“This house must have been the hotel of some distinguished family, Baron; it is nobly proportioned,” said David Arden.
Checkmate|Joseph Sheridan Le Fanu

Beneath its far-flung branches a syce was sitting in front of a finely-proportioned and unusually big Arab horse.
The Red Year|Louis Tracy
We had a large salle in the Hotel Bremen which was admirably proportioned, and a new grand piano from Berlin.
Music-Study in Germany|Amy Fay
The movable bridge in its closed position must be proportioned like a fixed bridge, but it has also other conditions to fulfil.
Encyclopaedia Britannica, 11th Edition, Volume 4, Part 3|Various
The camel commonly lives forty or fifty years, which term of life is proportioned to the time of its growth.
Buffon's Natural History. Volume VIII (of 10)|Georges Louis Leclerc de Buffon