Meaning of DISPROPORTIONATE
| Pronunciation: | | `dispru'powrshunit
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- [adj] not proportionate
- [adj] out of proportion
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| | Synonyms: | | disproportional, incommensurate |
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| | Antonyms: | | proportionate | | |
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| | Definition: | | \Dis`pro*por"tion*ate\, a.
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. -- {Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ly}, adv. --
{Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ness}, n.
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| | Related Terms: | | abnormal, absurd, aggrandized, aimless, amorphous, amplified, anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, asymmetric, asymmetrical, at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war, ballyhooed, capricious, casual, clashing, contradictory, contrary, cranky, cross, desultory, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable, disagreeing, disarticulated, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, disharmonious, disjunct, disordered, disparate, dispersed, dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, divergent, erratic, exaggerated, excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fitful, formless, frivolous, grandiloquent, grating, gratuitous, haphazard, high-flown, hit-or-miss, hostile, hyperbolic, ill-matched, ill-sorted, immethodical, immiscible, inaccordant, inadequate, inchoate, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate, incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant, indiscriminate, inflated, inharmonious, inordinate, insufficient, irreconcilable, irregular, jangling, jarring, lopsided, magnified, meaningless, mismatched, misshapen, negative, nonsymmetrical, nonsystematic, nonuniform, odd, off-balance, orderless, out of accord, out of proportion, out of whack, overbalanced, overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated, overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated, overstressed, overwrought, oxymoronic, paradoxical, planless, prodigal, profuse, promiscuous, puffed, random, repugnant, self-contradictory, senseless, shapeless, skew, skewed, spasmodic, sporadic, straggling, straggly, stretched, superlative, systemless, touted, unarranged, unbalanced, unclassified, uncongenial, undirected, unequal, uneven, unfair, ungraded, unharmonious, unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, variant, wandering |
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