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Proportionate vs Improportionate - What's the difference?

proportionate | improportionate |

As adjectives the difference between proportionate and improportionate

is that proportionate is in proportion; proportional; commensurable while improportionate is not proportionate.

As a verb proportionate

is to make proportionate.

proportionate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • In proportion; proportional; commensurable.
  • * John Locke
    • What is proportionate to his transgression.
  • Harmonious and symmetrical.

    • Antonyms

    * (in proportion) disproportionate, nonproportionate, unproportionate * (harmonious and symmetrical)

    Verb

    (proportionat)
  • To make proportionate.

    • See also

    * apportion English heteronyms ----

    improportionate

    English

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • (obsolete) Not proportionate.
    • (Webster 1913)