ill-proportioned

1. 1.

   lacking pleasing proportions

   Similarunshapely

Questions about ill-proportioned

What does ill-proportioned mean?

ill-proportioned means "lacking pleasing proportions".

How many syllables are in ill-proportioned?

ill-proportioned has 5 syllables and divides as ill--pro-por-tio-ned under the regular spelling rules. It is not in the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary, so that comes from how the word is written rather than from a recorded pronunciation, and no stress or phonetic transcription is claimed for it.

Is ill-proportioned a common word?

ill-proportioned is banded "Rare" — specialist or archaic — most readers will not have met it. The band comes from how often the word appears in a large corpus of everyday English, not from an editor's impression.