proportioned

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English

Adjective

proportioned (comparative more proportioned, superlative most proportioned)

  1. 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

  1. simple past and past participle of proportion