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Definition
an appropriate amount, magnitude, or degree among constituents of something or between different things- proportionate representation of a minority group
- Each nation then would have a vote in administration roughly proportionate to its contributions.
- Distant galaxies are receding at speeds proportionate to their distance.
- Their response were appropriate and proportionate.
- Where these minds are low and gross, the area of that "appearance" is proportionately widened.George Eliot -- The Mill on the Floss
- He needs a bigger container, but not proportionately bigger.Dave Eggers -- The Circle
- A proportionately low number of these members were from the rural areas, the regions where the ANC had historically been weakest.Nelson Mandela -- Long Walk to Freedom
- I will exert myself, and if it is in my power to seize the monster, be assured that he shall suffer punishment proportionate to his crimes.Mary Shelley -- Frankenstein
- The seriousness of such an occasion is directly proportionate to the number of bodily emissions you are asked to cull for analysis.Don DeLillo -- White Noise
- The deeds of the hero in the second part of his personal cycle will be proportionate to the depth of his descent during the first.Joseph Campbell -- The Hero With a Thousand Faces
- The good news spread quickly through the house, and with proportionate speed through the neighbourhood.Jane Austen -- Pride and Prejudice
- But who is to define what is proportionate?Leo Tolstoy -- Anna Karenina
- This was a more authoritative speech than she had ever heard on her niece's lips, and Mrs. Penniman was proportionately startled.Henry James -- Washington Square
- But, Joss Bont, I beg you to be proportionate.Geraldine Brooks -- Year of Wonders
- Opposite the spot to which he had brought her was such a general confluence, and the river was proportionately voluminous and deep.Thomas Hardy -- Tess of the d'Urbervilles
- It was smaller, more proportionate.Stephenie Meyer -- The Host
- And his girth was proportionate.Theodore Dreiser -- An American Tragedy
- Man, we must look to cause proportionate.Arthur Miller -- The Crucible
- But my anxiety increased a proportionate amount.Patrick Rothfuss -- The Name of the Wind
- The world seemed hardly large enough to yield him an amount of travel proportionate to his equipment.Charles Dickens -- Little Dorrit