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English
Adjective
proportioned (comparative more proportioned, superlative most proportioned)
- Having a proportion.
1900, Charles W[addell] Chesnutt, chapter I, in The House Behind the Cedars, Boston, Mass.; New York, N.Y.: Houghton, Mifflin and Company , →OCLC: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.
1972 October 5, “Male Nudity Surveyed”, in The Daily Press:I thoroughly enjoy seeing a well proportioned nude male.
Derived terms
Verb
proportioned
- simple past and past participle of proportion