Word Meanings - SUPERPROPORTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database
Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby.
Related words: (words related to SUPERPROPORTION)
- PROPORTIONATE
Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke. - PROPORTION
1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his - PROPORTIONABLE
Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke. - OVERPLUS
That which remains after a supply, or beyond a quantity proposed; surplus. Shak. "The overplus of a great fortune." Addison. - PROPORTIONALITY
The state of being in proportion. Coleridge. - PROPORTIONATENESS
The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale. - PROPORTIONLESS
Without proportion; unsymmetrical. - EXCESS
out, loss of self-possession, fr. excedere, excessum, to go out, go 1. The state of surpassing or going beyond limits; the being of a measure beyond sufficiency, necessity, or duty; that which exceeds what is usual or prover; immoderateness; - EXCESSIVE
Characterized by, or exhibiting, excess; overmuch. Excessive grief the enemy to the living. Shak. Syn. -- Undue; exorbitant; extreme; overmuch; enormous; immoderate; monstrous; intemperate; unreasonable. See Enormous --Ex*cess*ive*ly, - PROPORTIONABLY
Proportionally. Locke. - PROPORTIONATELY
In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally. - PROPORTIONAL
1. Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. Milton. 2. Relating to, or securing, proportion. Hutton. 3. Constituting a proportion; having the same, or - PROPORTIONMENT
The act or process of dividing out proportionally. - PROPORTIONALLY
In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large. Sir I. Newton. - DISPROPORTIONALLY
In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally. - IMPROPORTIONATE
Not proportionate. - DISPROPORTIONALITY
The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More. - DISPROPORTIONABLE
Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv. - MISPROPORTION
To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion. - DISPROPORTIONATE
Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means. - IMPROPORTIONABLE
Not proportionable. B. Jonson. - SUPERPROPORTION
Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby. - DISPROPORTIONAL
Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be - UNDERPROPORTIONED
Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor. Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility. Collier.