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Meaning proportionate meaning

What does proportionate mean?

proportionate

— adjective being in due proportion proportionate representation of a minority group — adjective agreeing in amount, magnitude, or degree — adjective (= harmonious) exhibiting equivalence or correspondence among constituents of an entity or between different entities

Synonyms proportionate synonyms

What other words have the same or similar meaning as proportionate?

proportionate English » English

proportional symmetrical commensurate proportionable harmonious equal commensurable balanced well-proportioned uniform relative relational rateable equivalent answerable analogous analgesic

Conjugation proportionate conjugation

How do you conjugate proportionate?

proportionate · verb

Examples proportionate examples

How do I use proportionate in a sentence?

Simple sentences

The punishment should be proportionate to the crime.
The duration of passion is proportionate with the original resistance of the woman.

Movie subtitles

What we're aiming for is a being approximately seven feet in height, with all features either congenitally or artificially proportionate in size.
You see, the amount of sleep a person needs is inversely proportionate to their age.
You know, proportionate-wise.
Proportionate-wise, obviously.
Because the length of your lives is directly proportionate to how useful you are to me.
Those teeth are proportionate to the teeth of a camel in the mouth of a toddler.
The pay is proportionate.
I used to be height-weight proportionate. but my brother saw my potential.
Proportionate sacrifices must be made in order to achieve a large goal.
Good arms. Proportionate.
My balls are no longer proportionate to my wang.
The amount of superstition that a culture can absorb would be directly proportionate to the amount of information people have.
This is not a proportionate response.
She seems resistant to feeding though her rapid growth should generate a proportionate appetite.
The amount of the smell is proportionate to the amount of body movement, emotional changes and metabolism.
He's saying you have the proportionate excitability of a puppet your size.
The creature is growing at an alarming rate with a proportionate increase in strength.
Proportionate to his insolence! Without compassion and without pity!
It should be proportionate and visible.
It's not so much that they're small. It's that the diameter of the areola is not proportionate to the size of the breast.
He's got the proportionate strength of a paralyzed spider!
We should be dividing our rations based on our proportionate size.
It feels proportionate.
Good arms, proportionate head.
If you're going to go on the attack, you have to be prepared for a proportionate response.
But evolutionarily speaking, your survival is directly proportionate to their health.
I'm proportionate.
Long legs and cute, small head, beautifully arched feet, proportionate body.

News and current affairs

Yet we must still ask whether a full-scale invasion is the only way, a necessary and proportionate way, to fulfil that aim.
I believe that the fairest and simplest proportionate response would be to impose a no-fly zone on Syria.
It is time our collective security alliances overhauled these inequitable funding methods and made sure that all member states pay a proportionate price for global security.
There are many other examples of successful implementation of proportionate regulation that have resulted in greater financial inclusion without compromising financial stability.
So bombing Buenos Aires in that context would have been unnecessary and therefore could not possibly qualify as proportionate.
I know of no case in the international version of shooting escaping looters where a court has affirmed that the use of force was necessary but not proportionate.
Instead, European law requires an individual determination that deportation is necessary and proportionate to the crime committed, as well as consideration of other circumstances (such as the strength of the individual's ties to the community).
In a world in which women held a proportionate share (one-half) of leadership positions, they might behave differently in power.
The killings must be proportionate, strategically necessary, and publicly justified.
We must take full advantage of our organized security structures to ensure that the global security burden is shared in a fair and proportionate manner.
Our NATO allies launched proportionate military operations aimed at denying Col. Muammar Qaddafi's regime the means to attack civilian targets.
Indeed, it is one of the iron laws of corporate physics: For every regulation, there is a proportionate proliferation of innovations to circumvent it.
In January, a group of scientists (including me) sent a letter to the European Commission imploring it to implement evidence-based, proportionate regulation that allows users of PNVs to identify the product and dosage that suits them.

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