proportionately

1. 1.

   to a proportionate degree

   “your salary will rise proportionately to your workload”

   Synonymsproportionally

   Antonymsdisproportionately
2. 2.

   in proportion

   “the height of this wall must be reduced proportionately to give the room pleasant dimensions”

   Antonymsdisproportionately
3. 3.

   in proportion

   Synonymspro rata

Questions about proportionately

What does proportionately mean?

proportionately means "to a proportionate degree". That is the primary sense; the word has 3 in total, listed in full on this page.

How many syllables are in proportionately?

proportionately has 5 syllables: propor-tio-na-te-ly. The stress falls on "tio". In IPA it is /pɹəˈpɔɹʃənətli/.

What is another word for proportionately?

Close synonyms include proportionally, pro rata. Each sense on this page lists its own synonyms, because a word with several meanings rarely has one substitute that works for all of them.

What is the opposite of proportionately?

The recorded antonyms are disproportionately, disproportionately.

Is proportionately a common word?

proportionately 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.

What rhymes with proportionately?

1 word rhymes with proportionately. Rhymes are matched on the phonemes from the last stressed vowel onward, which is the definition a reader has in their head.