Proportionate is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for PROPORTIONATE in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make proportionate
• To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.
ADJECTIVE:
• in proportion
• (of a variable quantity) having a constant ratio to another quantity.
• corresponding in size or amount to something else
• Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.
• being in due proportion
• agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree
• exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• proportional

Words related to PROPORTIONATE

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Words that contain PROPORTIONATE

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How to use PROPORTIONATE in a sentence

• This work has been proportionate to the whole effort in other directions.
• The desire to explain the mystery was general, and the slightest means of attaining such an end became of a value proportionate to the difficulty of effecting the object.
• His mate, Elias Goddedaal, was a huge viking of a man, six feet three and of proportionate mass, strong, sober, industrious, musical, and sentimental.
• But as her strength returned, and as she gradually resumed her usual health, by proportionate though almost invisible degrees her memory returned to her, and her intelligence.
• At my last visit, I took the liberty of mentioning a subject, which, I think, is not considered with attention proportionate to its importance.
• Convictions for crimes, however, were in greatest proportionate excess among the free negroes of the North.
• The sergeants of each platoon come to this hut or dug-out, and to them the things are delivered in quantities proportionate with the number of men in the section each represents.
• This diagram shows the manner of making three stitches, and any other number could be made, by putting the thread round a proportionate number of times.
• He was therefore taken unawares, and his ship did no service proportionate to her force.
• Only one immense leaf is produced, which frequently attains a width of two feet, with a proportionate length.
• He has made a maximum growth on minimum feed, and from that time on he will eat more and give smaller proportionate returns.
• Facts ought to explain themselves by proportionate causes.
• It may be safely assumed that, in general, appreciation of Horace was proportionate to greatness of soul and real love of literature.
• Their education had not been neglected, and they had been assigned a household proportionate to the dignity of their birth.
• My submission did not produce an amount of harmony in the house in any way proportionate to the price I paid for it.
• The subsequent exhaustion is necessarily proportionate to the excitement.
• I beheld ridges of mountains succeeding each other in proportionate pre-eminence, until the range of the eternal glaciers, with their lustrous cones, flashed in the Syrian sun.
• He went for the entire and unrestrained authority, without consulting the States, and without agreeing to any proportionate distribution.
• That year was one of excessive imports and 1839 one of equal depression, but this can only bear upon the facts of the case so far as proportionate quantities.
• Many mills, however, give a certain increase in wages at the end of regular periods proportionate to the profits.
• In such cases the tax should, of course, be proportionate.
• What was thus lost by each was proportionate profit to the people.
• The truly proportionate, constant, efficacious relations between things will remain material.
• His equipment in mind and stature was Olympian, but the odds against him were proportionate to his powers.
• Hence, contemplating it constantly in this state, they could not but feel a proportionate fear of all that was disorderly, unbalanced, and rugged.
• Proportionate representation in physical and spiritual form must come.
• As it described a greater arc its activity was proportionate.

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