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well-proportioned

British  

adjective

  1. having the correct or desirable relationship between constituent parts with respect to size, number, or degree

"Collins English Dictionary — Complete & Unabridged" 2012 Digital Edition © William Collins Sons & Co. Ltd. 1979, 1986 © HarperCollins Publishers 1998, 2000, 2003, 2005, 2006, 2007, 2009, 2012

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“Bedrooms are well-proportioned, and the primary bathroom includes a soaking tub positioned near windows that bring in natural light and views of the landscape,” the listing reads.

From MarketWatch • Mar. 18, 2026

“I don’t think we’re all feeling like robust, well-proportioned trees. We’re all kind of bruised.”

From Seattle Times • Dec. 22, 2020

Johansson and Driver are superb performers, attentive, generous, versatile, and able to register minute shifts of feeling and understanding on their admittedly well-proportioned features.

From Slate • Oct. 30, 2019

“If you’re just looking at a file of code Sanjay wrote, it’s beautiful in the way that a well-proportioned sculpture is beautiful.”

From The New Yorker • Dec. 3, 2018

In photos from around this time, Jim appears as a neatly groomed, well-proportioned young man, a few inches shorter than Farmer, with jet-black hair swept into a knife-like wave and wire-rimmed glasses over narrow eyes.

From "Mountains Beyond Mountains" by Tracy Kidder and Michael French

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