Disproportionate
[,dɪsprə'pɔːʃ(ə)nət]
Definition
(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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
a. [1]. Unsymmetrical, out of proportion.[2]. Inadequate, unsuitable.
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Examples
- I was very much depressed in spirits; very solitary; and felt an uneasiness in Ham's not being there, disproportionate to the occasion. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- And try to restrain the disproportionate fervour with which you throw yourself into commonplace home pleasures. Charlotte Bronte. Jane Eyre.
- Miss Keeldar blushed, while she laughed at her own over-eager generosity and most disproportionate calculations. Charlotte Bronte. Shirley.
- As the gun increases in size, its cost both in construction and service increases in a greatly disproportionate ratio. Edward W. Byrn. The Progress of Invention in the Nineteenth Century.
- That shows you wanted me to, he returned, with a disproportionate joy in their nonsense. Edith Wharton. The Age of Innocence.
- For Bulstrode shrank from a direct lie with an intensity disproportionate to the number of his more indirect misdeeds. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
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