ratioed

1. 1
   adjectiveneologism

   Describing a social media post that has many more replies than retweets or likes, signaling widespread public disapproval.

   Like a speaker met with a wall of boos instead of applause.

   The ratioed announcement quickly became a running joke among commentators.

   A ratioed post tells you the public sharply disagrees with whoever wrote it.

   Note

   A recent Twitter coinage, built from ratio plus -ed. The ratio is replies set against likes and retweets, and when replies swamp approval, the crowd has spoken against the post. Because it is a yes-or-no verdict, it takes no comparative: a post is ratioed or it is not, never more ratioed. It belongs to online commentary rather than formal writing.

2. 2
   verb

   Simple past and past participle of ratio.

   Critics ratioed the senator's post within the hour.

   The crowd ratioed his half-hearted apology, piling on replies.

   Note

   The verb is transitive, and its object is the post being swamped: critics ratioed the announcement. It shares its spelling with the adjective for a disapproved post. A sentence like "the tweet was ratioed" can therefore be read either as a passive verb or as a plain description. Either way, the post is on the losing end.

3. 3
   adjectiveneologism

   Of a tweet, having drawn a reply that collected more likes than the original tweet did.

   By evening the senator's tweet looked hopelessly ratioed, with one sarcastic reply collecting twice as many likes as the original.

   She deleted the ratioed post after a stranger's correction outscored it in likes overnight.

   Note

   Here the measure is narrower. It is not the crowd of replies but a single one that outscores the original in likes, such as a sharp correction or a joke that wins more approval than the tweet it answers. The difference from the reply-count meaning matters when reading. There, sheer volume of replies signals disapproval; here, one winning reply does the damage.

4. 4
   adjective

   Changed or scaled by being multiplied by a particular ratio.

   Like scaling a map, where every distance shrinks by the same factor.

   The transmission's ratioed gearing improved highway fuel economy.

   The recipe's ratioed quantities had to be recalculated for a larger batch.

   Similarscaled, proportioned

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