Proportioned vs Unproportioned - What's the difference?
proportioned | unproportioned |
Having a proportion.
* 1900 , , The House Behind the Cedars , Chapter I,
(proportion)
Not proportioned.
*{{quote-book, year=1887, author=Edmund Burke, title=The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12), chapter=, edition=
, passage=The teaching school, an useful and virtuous occupation, even the teaching in a private family, was in every Catholic subjected to the same unproportioned punishment. }}
*{{quote-book, year=1921, author=Joseph Conrad, title=Notes on My Books, chapter=, edition=
, passage=At last the story of Winnie Verloc stood out complete from the days of her childhood to the end, unproportioned as yet, with everything still on the first plan, as it were; but ready now to be dealt with. }}
As adjectives the difference between proportioned and unproportioned
is that proportioned is having a proportion while unproportioned is not proportioned.As a verb proportioned
is (proportion).proportioned
English
Adjective
(en adjective)- 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.
Verb
(head)unproportioned
English
Adjective
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