Meanings
comparative more well-proportioned · superlative most well-proportioned
- Having good and pleasing proportions.
The whole structure is 630 ft. long, and is remarkable for its massive but well-proportioned outlines.
1949 May and June, “Notes and News: Construction of the Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 2021 more example
They were shewn into the usual sitting room, well-proportioned & well-furnished;—tho’ it saw Furniture rather originally good & extremely well kept, than new or shewey—[…]
Sanditon
1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, pages 169–170Synonyms: built
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectiveHaving good and pleasing proportions.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectiveof pleasing proportions
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