| 单词 | ill-proportioned |
| 释义 | ill-proportioned (once / 95318 pages) adj Something that's ill-proportioned is oddly shaped or sized, or doesn't fit in relation to things around it. Your tiny oil painting is going to look ill-proportioned in the middle of that huge, white wall. A brand new, massive, glass-covered skyscraper might look ill-proportioned in your city of mostly historic brick buildings, and you might find that your big, clompy rain books are ill-proportioned compared to the rest of your outfit. This adjective adds the prefix ill-, "not well" or "badly," to proportioned, which comes from the Latin root word proportionem, "comparative relation." WORD FAMILYproportioned: ill-proportioned+/disproportion: disproportions/disproportional: disproportionally/proportion: disproportion, proportionable, proportional, proportioned, proportioning, proportions/proportionable: proportionably/proportional: disproportional, proportionality, proportionally, proportionals USAGE EXAMPLESOften, the clothes are simply scaled up from a size 2 fit model into larger, ill-proportioned clothes. Los Angeles Times(Nov 12, 2015) The stone was featureless, ill-proportioned; the inscription recorded nothing but her name and the dates of her birth and death. Gillmore, Inez Haynes, Out of the Air(2011) He was not what is called a fine-looking man, for though sufficiently tall, he was gaunt and ill-proportioned. Leslie, Eliza, Pencil Sketches—or, Outlines of Cha...(2011) adj lacking pleasing proportions Syn unshapely not well-proportioned and pleasing in shape |
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