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What (who) is -proportioned - definition
-proportioned
-proportioned is added to adverbs to form adjectives that indicate that the size and shape of the different parts of something or someone are pleasing or useful.
The flat has high ceilings and well-proportioned rooms.
COMB in ADJ
proportion
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Proportional; Proportion; Proportionality (disambiguation); Proportions; Proportionate; Proportion (disambiguation)
n.
1) (a) direct; inverse proportion
2) in proportion to
3) out of proportion to (the punishment was out of proportion to the crime)
proportion
WIKIMEDIA DISAMBIGUATION PAGE
Proportional; Proportion; Proportionality (disambiguation); Proportions; Proportionate; Proportion (disambiguation)
(proportions)
Frequency: The word is one of the 3000 most common words in English.
1.
A proportion of a group or an amount is a part of it. (FORMAL)
A large proportion of the dolphins in that area will eventually die...
A proportion of the rent is met by the city council.
N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N of n
2.
The proportion of one kind of person or thing in a group is the number of people or things of that kind compared to the total number of people or things in the group.
The proportion of women in the profession had risen to 17.3%...
N-COUNT: usu sing, usu N of n
3.
The proportion of one amount to another is the relationship between the two amounts in terms of how much there is of each thing.
Women's bodies tend to have a higher proportion of fat to water.
= ratio
N-COUNT: oft N of n to n
4.
If you refer to the proportions of something, you are referring to its size, usually when this is extremely large. (WRITTEN)
In the tropics plants grow to huge proportions.
N-PLURAL: usu supp N
5.
If one thing increases or decreases in proportion to another thing, it increases or decreases to the same degree as that thing.
The pressure in the cylinders would go up in proportion to the boiler pressure.
PREP-PHRASE
6.
If something is small or large in proportion to something else, it is small or large when compared with that thing.
Children tend to have relatively larger heads than adults in proportion to the rest of their body.
PREP-PHRASE
7.
If you say that something is out of all proportion to something else, you think that it is far greater or more serious than it should be.
The punishment was out of all proportion to the crime.
PREP-PHRASE: usu v-link PREP
8.
If you get something out of proportion, you think it is more important or worrying than it really is. If you keep something in proportion, you have a realistic view of how important it is.
Everything just got blown out of proportion...
We've got to keep this in proportion.
PHRASE: PHR after v
Examples of use of -proportioned
1. Another wife wrote in her diary that he was priapic, indefatigable, grotesquely proportioned.
2. Anger – that I would have to deal with Hugh‘s ill–proportioned grief.
3. Her LA chums Eva Longoria and Kate Beckinsale are similarly proportioned.
4. Perfectly proportioned and matched with their wines, the rest of the courses ambled past our palates with utmost pleasantness.
5. The result can be both beautiful and horrible, as a dark medieval sense of death and disease disfigures the well–proportioned Renaissance figure.