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well-proportioned

Definitions

from The Century Dictionary.

  • Having good or correct proportions; fitting as to parts or relations; properly coördinated.

from Wiktionary, Creative Commons Attribution/Share-Alike License.

  • adjective Having good and pleasing proportions.
  • adjective Compact.

from WordNet 3.0 Copyright 2006 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.

  • adjective of pleasing proportions

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Examples

  • Zaftig - (US, colloquial) Of a woman, having a plump and sexually attractive figure; voluptuous, well-proportioned.

    Word of the week - Zaftig Not a sheep 2009

  • I use my 5.5 quart LeCreuset to achieve a well-proportioned loaf.

    Big Girls, Small Kitchen: Resolved to Bake Bread Big Girls 2011

  • The owner, Steve Lawson, puts the venue to good use, creating a well-proportioned bookshop stocking around 7,500 titles on the ground floor, and a cafe on the first, which also spills out on to the pavement on warm days.

    Independent bookshops in north-west England 2011

  • Larry Thompson established Greyweathers Press several years ago because of a "love of beautifully designed type skillfully arranged on a well-proportioned page."

    2009 November 11 | NIGEL BEALE NOTA BENE BOOKS 2009

  • And Havsy, I like your style - I can just see Julianne being played by the sexy and … ahhh … well-proportioned … Lieutenant James (?) from Stargate Universe.

    Cheeseburger Gothic » A Christmas sampler. 2009

  • Larry Thompson established Greyweathers Press several years ago because of a "love of beautifully designed type skillfully arranged on a well-proportioned page."

    Audio Interview with Fine Press Owner Larry Thompson: On the Process of Letterpress Printing 2009

  • That Bad Boy is symmetrical and well-proportioned!

    Mail Call! 2009

  • That Bad Boy is symmetrical and well-proportioned!

    Mail Call! 2009

  • I don't much care for the high-ceilinged public areas of the Pershing Square Signature Center, which are stark, boxy and uninviting, but the Jewel Box is a well-proportioned little house that is going to serve its new owners extremely well.

    Waiting for Mandela Terry Teachout 2012

  • And just when roaming eyes thought it was over, her flawless waistline tapered downward and ballooned into a beautiful, well-proportioned back-side.

    Show Stoppah Thomas Slater 2011

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