proportioned

1. 1
   adjective

   Having parts related to one another in a particular relationship of size, amount, or degree.

   Like a recipe in balance, where each ingredient appears in the right amount next to the others.

   The architect designed a generously proportioned living space flooded with daylight.

   Classical statues are often admired for their finely proportioned forms.

   Similarsized, shaped, formed, built, dimensioned

   Note

   An adjective that seldom stands alone. It wants an adverb to say how well the parts fit together: well proportioned, admirably proportioned, generously proportioned. Charles W. Chesnutt's The House Behind the Cedars (1900) uses it of a girl's figure, and it suits bodies, rooms and statues alike. It can also be compared directly (more proportioned, most proportioned), though the adverb usually does the grading.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of proportion.

   The architect proportioned the columns to match the height of the hall.

   Funds were proportioned among the departments according to need.

   Note

   One regular form serves as both simple past and participle, and it carries every transitive meaning of the verb: dividing into shares, shaping symmetrically, or setting one thing in proportion to another. An older use, now archaic, meant "corresponded to." When an adverb of quality comes first, as in finely proportioned, the word has usually become the adjective of balanced parts rather than a verb.

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