Word Meanings - PROPORTIONATE - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of PROPORTIONATE)

• Equable
• Uniform
• regular
• proportionate
• even
• smooth
• easy
• Equitable
• Fair
• just
• impartial
• upright
• proper
• reasonable
• even-handed
• honest

Related words: (words related to PROPORTIONATE)

• SMOOTHEN
  To make smooth.
• EQUABLENESS
  Quality or state of being equable.
• REGULARITY
  The condition or quality of being regular; as, regularity of outline; the regularity of motion.
• SMOOTHNESS
  Quality or state of being smooth.
• HONESTY
  Satin flower; the name of two cruciferous herbs having large flat pods, the round shining partitions of which are more beautiful than the blossom; -- called also lunary and moonwort. Lunaria biennis is common honesty; L. rediva is perennial honesty.
• PROPER
  Properly; hence, to a great degree; very; as, proper good.
• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• UNIFORMISM
  The doctrine of uniformity in the geological history of the earth; -- in part equivalent to uniformitarianism, but also used, more broadly, as opposed to catastrophism.
• SMOOTH
  1. The act of making smooth; a stroke which smooths. Thackeray. 2. That which is smooth; the smooth part of anything. "The smooth of his neck." Gen. xxvii. 16.
• UPRIGHTNESS
  the quality or state of being upright.
• UNIFORMAL
  Uniform. Herrick.
• UNIFORMLY
  In a uniform manner; without variation or diversity; by a regular, constant, or common ratio of change; with even tenor; as, a temper uniformly mild. To vary uniformly , to vary with the ratio of the corresponding increments constant; -- said of
• REGULARIA
  A division of Echini which includes the circular, or regular, sea urchins.
• SMOOTH-CHINNED
  Having a smooth chin; beardless. Drayton.
• IMPARTIAL
  Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. Shak. Jove is impartial, and to both the same. Dryden. A comprehensive and impartial view. Macaulay.
• SMOOTHLY
  In a smooth manner.
• IMPARTIALIST
  One who is impartial. Boyle.
• EQUABLE
  1. Equal and uniform; continuing the same at different times; -- said of motion, and the like; uniform in surface; smooth; as, an equable plain or globe. 2. Uniform in action or intensity; not variable or changing; -- said of the feelings
• PROPERLY
  1. In a proper manner; suitably; fitly; strictly; rightly; as, a word properly applied; a dress properly adjusted. Milton. 2. Individually; after one's own manner. Now, harkeneth, how I bare me properly. Chaucer.
• PROPERNESS
  1. The quality of being proper. 2. Tallness; comeliness. Udall.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISHONESTY
  1. Dishonor; dishonorableness; shame. "The hidden things of dishonesty." 2 Cor. iv. 2. 2. Want of honesty, probity, or integrity in principle; want of fairness and straightforwardness; a disposition to defraud, deceive, or betray; faithlessness.
• IRREGULARITY
  The state or quality of being irregular; that which is irregular.
• UNHONEST
  Dishonest; dishonorable. Ascham. -- Un*hon"est*ly, adv. Udall.
• MESOCUNEIFORM; MESOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See 2d Cuneiform.
• IMPROPERLY
  In an improper manner; not properly; unsuitably; unbecomingly.
• DEHONESTATE
  To disparage. (more info) dishonor; de- + honestare to make honorable. Cf. Dishonest, and see
• 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.
• IMPROPERATION
  The act of upbraiding or taunting; a reproach; a taunt. Improperatios and terms of scurrility. Sir T. Browne
• ENTOCUNEIFORM; ENTOCUNIFORM
  One of the bones of the tarsus. See Cuneiform.