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proportioned

proportioned adjective: having a proportion. Also the simple past and past participle of proportion.

Adjective

proportioned (comparative more proportioned, superlative most proportioned)

  1. Having a proportion.
    • The girl's figure, he perceived, was admirably proportioned; she was evidently at the period when the angles of childhood were rounding into the promising curves of adolescence.1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company […], →OCLC
    • I thoroughly enjoy seeing a well proportioned nude male.1972 October 5, “Male Nudity Surveyed”, in The Daily Press

Also used as

proportioned is also the simple past and past participle of proportion.

Forms of proportioned

comparativemore proportioned
superlativemost proportioned

Words formed from proportioned

Questions about proportioned

What does proportioned mean?
Proportioned means having a proportion.
What part of speech is proportioned?
Proportioned is an adjective.

Words near proportioned in the dictionary

  1. proportionates
  2. proportionating
  3. proportionative
  4. proportionator
  5. proportionators
  6. proportioned
  7. proportioner
  8. proportioners
  9. proportioneth
  10. proportioning
  11. proportionise

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