Disproportion
[dɪsprə'pɔːʃ(ə)n] or [,dɪsprə'pɔrʃən]
Definition
(noun.) lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something.
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Definition
(n.) Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry; as, the arm may be in disproportion to the body; the disproportion of the length of a building to its height.
(n.) Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.
(v. t.) To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
Checker: Newman
Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Want of symmetry.[2]. Disparity, inequality, unsuitableness.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
[See PROPORTION]
Typist: Morton
Definition
n. want of proportion symmetry or suitableness of parts: inequality.—v.t. to make unsuitable in form or size &c.—n. Dispropor′tionableness.—adv. Dispropor′tionably.—adjs. Dispropor′tional Dispropor′tionable (arch.).—advs. Dispropor′tionally Dispropor′tionably (arch.).—adj. Dispropor′tionate not proportioned: unsymmetrical: unsuitable to something else in some respect.—adv. Dispropor′tionately.—n. Dispropor′tionateness.
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Examples
- The thought of our own times has not out-stripped language; a want of Plato's 'art of measuring' is the rule cause of the disproportion between them. Plato. The Republic.
- And once more, the inharmonious and unseemly nature can only tend to disproportion? Plato. The Republic.
- The disproportion would have been too great between the value of the accessory and that of the principal. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- And do you consider truth to be akin to proportion or to disproportion? Plato. The Republic.
- It may, indeed, be thought, that the greater the disproportion is, the greater must be the uneasiness from the comparison. David Hume. A Treatise of Human Nature.
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