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proportioned

adjective C2
  1. Having a proportion.
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It was a large, well-proportioned room, handsomely fitted up.
Pride and Prejudice, p. 274 · B2
AT ONE TIME a very large and strong Wolf was born among the wolves, who exceeded all his fellow-wolves in strength, size, and swiftness, so that they unanimously decided to call him “Lion.” The Wolf, with a lack of sense proportioned to his enormous size, thought that they gave him this name in earnest, and, leaving his own race, consorted exclusively with the lions.
Three Hundred Aesop's Fables, p. 64 · B2
Tall and well proportioned as an ancient gladiator, and muscular as a Spartan, he walked for a quarter of an hour without knowing where to direct his steps, actuated by the sole idea of getting away from the spot where if he lingered he knew that he would surely be taken.
The Count of Monte Cristo, p. 974 · C1

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