proportioned

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

• ill-proportioned
• well-proportioned

Verb

proportioned

1. simple past and past participle of proportion