proportioned

[pruh-pawr-shuhnd, -pohr-]

adjective

1. adjusted to proper proportion or relation.

2. having proportions as specified.

   a badly proportioned room.

Other Word Forms

• nonproportioned adjective
• underproportioned adjective
• unproportioned adjective
• well-proportioned adjective

Word History and Origins

Origin of proportioned¹

First recorded in 1350–1400, proportioned is from the Middle English word proporcioned. See proportion, -ed ²

Example Sentences

A classically proportioned drama about the building of the American West, mostly seen from the eyes of one logger, that approaches the quiet grandeur of a Terrence Malick movie?

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Rick Owens mixed gothic elements with a touch of the bizarre, featuring oversized rubber boots that Owens himself described as outlandishly proportioned.

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The funds would be proportioned based on a voucher system that would let residents choose which outlets should get the most funding.

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The largest-of-the-large sauropods had differently shaped teeth and heads and distinctively proportioned bodies, indicating that these herbivorous dinosaurs ate different plants and lived in subtly different habitats.

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The impossibly proportioned 11.5” plastic embodiment of unattainable female beauty standards loomed over my childhood, along with the thin, white actors and supermodels of the era.

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Related Words

• comely 
• curvaceous 
• elegant 
• graceful 
• pleasing 
• rounded