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proportionately

adverb as in relatively

noun as in per capita

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And the middle class is proportionately smaller and has shrunk more than elsewhere.

Rhode Island is the only state voting Tuesday where the delegates will be awarded proportionately.

In a state that allocates delegates proportionately, every vote will count.

Perhaps worst of all—Muslim Europeans, proportionately speaking, take religion seriously.

We had plenty of white problems, but proportionately we had more disciplinary problems with blacks.

The Sergeant stared at him hard, saw that both he and his friend wore evening dress, and grew proportionately respectful.

Such a contrivance helps to improve the leeway of so shallow a boat, although not proportionately to the area immersed.

In the neighbourhood of Lyons, the land lets high, and therefore sells proportionately.

This line style, whose world is not the wall or the canvas, but white paper, can do with a proportionately meagre study of nature.

This latter deficiency was made up by a voluminous cravat, tied with proportionately large bows.

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On this page you'll find 129 synonyms, antonyms, and words related to proportionately, such as: appropriately, correspondingly, properly, respectively, subsequently, and therefore.

From Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition Copyright © 2013 by the Philip Lief Group.

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