well-proportioned

English

Adjective

well-proportioned (comparative more well-proportioned, superlative most well-proportioned)

1. Having good and pleasing proportions.
   • 1817 (date written), Jane Austen, chapter 12, in R[aymond] W[ilson] Chambers, editor, Fragment of a Novel Written by Jane Austen, January–March 1817 […] [Sanditon], Oxford, Oxfordshire: Clarendon Press, published 1925, →OCLC, pages 169–170:

     They were shewn into the usual sitting room, well-proportioned & well-furnished;—tho’ it saw Furniture rather originally good & extremely well kept, than new or shewey—[…]

   • 1949 May and June, “Notes and News: Construction of the Viaduct”, in Railway Magazine, page 202:

     The whole structure is 630 ft. long, and is remarkable for its massive but well-proportioned outlines.

2. Compact.