Word Meanings - ANSWERABLY - Book Publishers vocabulary database
In an answerable manner; in due proportion or correspondence; suitably.
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- PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - CORRESPONDENCE SCHOOL
A school that teaches by correspondence, the instruction being based on printed instruction sheets and the recitation papers written by the student in answer to the questions or requirements of these sheets. In the broadest sense of the - PROPORTION
1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his - PROPORTIONABLE
Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. - MANNERIST
One addicted to mannerism; a person who, in action, bearing, or treatment, carries characteristic peculiarities to excess. See citation under Mannerism. - MANNERISM
Adherence to a peculiar style or manner; a characteristic mode of action, bearing, or treatment, carried to excess, especially in literature or art. Mannerism is pardonable,and is sometimes even agreeable, when the manner, though vicious, is natural - PROPORTIONALITY
The state of being in proportion. Coleridge. - PROPORTIONATENESS
The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale. - ANSWERABLE
1. Obliged to answer; liable to be called to account; liable to pay, indemnify, or make good; accountable; amenable; responsible; as, an agent is answerable to his principal; to be answerable for a debt, or for damages. Will any man argue that - PROPORTIONLESS
Without proportion; unsymmetrical. - PROPORTIONABLY
Proportionally. Locke. - MANNERLINESS
The quality or state of being mannerly; civility; complaisance. Sir M. Hale. - PROPORTIONATELY
In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally. - MANNERED
1. Having a certain way, esp a. polite way, of carrying and conducting one's self. Give her princely training, that she may be Mannered as she is born. Shak. 2. Affected with mannerism; marked by excess of some characteristic peculiarity. His style - MANNER
manual, skillful, handy, fr. LL. manarius, for L. manuarius 1. Mode of action; way of performing or effecting anything; method; style; form; fashion. The nations which thou hast removed, and placed in the cities of Samaria, know not the manner - PROPORTIONAL
1. Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. Milton. 2. Relating to, or securing, proportion. Hutton. 3. Constituting a proportion; having the same, or - PROPORTIONMENT
The act or process of dividing out proportionally. - MANNERCHOR
A German men's chorus or singing club. - MANNERLY
Showing good manners; civil; respectful; complaisant. What thou thinkest meet, and is most mannerly. Shak. - ANSWERABLENESS
The quality of being answerable, liable, responsible, or correspondent. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - INCORRESPONDENCE; INCORRESPONDENCY
Want of correspondence; disagreement; disproportion. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - UNMANNERLY
Not mannerly; ill-bred; rude. -- adv. - DISPROPORTIONATE
Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means. - UNANSWERABLE
Not answerable; irrefutable; conclusive; decisive; as, he have an unanswerable argument. -- Un*an"swer*a*ble*ness, n. -- Un*an"swer*a*bly, adv. - IMPROPORTIONABLE
Not proportionable. B. Jonson. - OVERMANNER
In an excessive manner; excessively. Wiclif. - SUPERPROPORTION
Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby.