proportionate

Speech parts

1. proportionate - Adjective

2. proportionate - Verb

4. proportionate - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional.

To make proportional; to adjust according to a settled rate, or to due comparative relation; to proportion; as, to proportionate punishment to crimes.

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The weakness of a soul is proportionate to the number of truths that must be kept from it. Eric Hoffer

In accordance with the foregoing investigations on mathematical principles, let bronze vessels be made, proportionate to the size of the theatre, and let them be so fashioned that, when touched, they may produce with one another the notes of the fourth, the fifth, and so on up the double octave. Vitruvius

No possible future government in Kabul can be worse than the Taliban, and no thinkable future government would allow the level of Al Qaeda gangsterism to recur. So the outcome is proportionate and congruent with international principles of self-defense. Christopher Hitchens

The utopia of the Populists was in the past, not in the future. According to the agrarian myth, the health of the state was proportionate to the degree to which it was dominated by the agricultural class, and this assumption pointed to the superiority of an earlier age. Richard Hofstadter

The greatest characters the world have known have arisen on the democratic floor. Aristocracy has not been able to keep a proportionate pace with democracy. Thomas Paine

Americans' right to free speech should not be proportionate to their bank accounts. Bernie Sanders

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