Word Meanings - SHAPELINESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

The quality or state of being shapely.

Possible synonyms: (Same meaning words of SHAPELINESS)

• Symmetry
• Harmony
• proportion
• conformity
• interrelation
• intercoincidence
• shapeliness
• agreement
• form

Related words: (words related to SHAPELINESS)

• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• PROPORTION
  1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
• CONFORMITY
  1. Correspondence in form, manner, or character; resemblance; agreement; congruity; -- followed by to, with, or between. By our conformity to God. Tillotson. The end of all religion is but to draw us to a conformity with God. Dr. H.More.
• PROPORTIONABLE
  Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke.
• PROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being in proportion. Coleridge.
• PROPORTIONATENESS
  The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale.
• PROPORTIONLESS
  Without proportion; unsymmetrical.
• HARMONY
  See STRAIN (more info) 1. The just adaptation of parts to each other, in any system or combination of things, or in things, or things intended to form a connected whole; such an agreement between
• PROPORTIONABLY
  Proportionally. Locke.
• AGREEMENT
  Concord or correspondence of one word with another in gender, number, case, or person. A concurrence in an engagement that something shall be done or omitted; an exchange of promises; mutual understanding, arrangement, or stipulation; a contract.
• INTERRELATION
  Mutual or reciprocal relation; correlation.
• SYMMETRY
  The law of likeness; similarity of structure; regularity in form and arrangement; orderly and similar distribution of parts, such that an animal may be divided into parts which are structurally symmetrical. Note: Bilateral symmetry, or
• PROPORTIONATELY
  In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.
• PROPORTIONAL
  1. Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. Milton. 2. Relating to, or securing, proportion. Hutton. 3. Constituting a proportion; having the same, or
• PROPORTIONMENT
  The act or process of dividing out proportionally.
• SHAPELINESS
  The quality or state of being shapely.
• PROPORTIONALLY
  In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large. Sir I. Newton.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• INCONFORMITY
  Want of conformity; nonconformity.
• ASYMMETRY
  Incommensurability. Barrow. (more info) 1. Want of symmetry, or proportion between the parts of a thing, esp. want of bilateral symmetry.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• DISSYMMETRY
  Absence or defect of symmetry; asymmetry.
• PSEUDO-SYMMETRY
  A kind of symmetry characteristic of certain crystals which from twinning, or other causes, come to resemble forms of a system other than that to which they belong, as the apparently hexagonal prisms of aragonite.
• HIRE PURCHASE; HIRE PURCHASE AGREEMENT; HIRE AND PURCHASE AGREEMENT
  A contract (more fully called contract of hire with an option of purchase) in which a person hires goods for a specified period and at a fixed rent, with the added condition that if he shall retain the goods for the full period and pay
• IMPROPORTIONABLE
  Not proportionable. B. Jonson.
• TELHARMONIUM; TELHARMONY
  An instrument for producing music , at a distant point or points by means of alternating currents of electricity controlled by an operator who plays on a keyboard. The music is produced by a receiving instrument similar or analogous to
• SUPERPROPORTION
  Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby.