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Word Meanings - SUPERPROPORTION - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby.

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  • 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.

 

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