disproportion

from WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006)
disproportion
    n 1: lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something
         [ant: {proportion}, {symmetry}]
    
from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disproportion \Dis`pro*por"tion\, n. [Pref. dis- + proportion:
   cf. F. disproportion.]
   1. 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.
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   2. Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an
      end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the
      disproportion of strength or means to an object.
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from The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
Disproportion \Dis`pro*por"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p.
   {Disproportioned}; p. pr. & vb. n. {Disproportioning}.]
   To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end;
   to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
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         To shape my legs of an unequal size;
         To disproportion me in every part.       --Shak.
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         A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the
         extent of its territory.                 --Prescott.
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from Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
95 Moby Thesaurus words for "disproportion":
      ambiguity, ambivalence, anamorphism, anamorphosis, antinomy,
      asymmetry, buckle, contortion, contrariety, crookedness,
      derangement, detorsion, deviation, difference, disarrangement,
      disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure,
      disconcertedness, disequilibrium, disharmony, dishevelment,
      disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness,
      disorganization, disparity, disproportionateness, disruption,
      dissimilarity, distortion, disturbance, entropy, equivocality,
      gnarl, haphazardness, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, imbalance,
      imparity, inadequacy, incoherence, incommensurability,
      incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance,
      indiscriminateness, inequality, inequity, inharmonious harmony,
      injustice, insufficiency, irreconcilability, irregularity, knot,
      lopsidedness, most admired disorder, nonconformability,
      nonconformity, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, odds, overbalance,
      oxymoron, paradox, perturbation, promiscuity, promiscuousness,
      quirk, randomness, screw, self-contradiction, shortcoming, torsion,
      tortuosity, turbulence, turn, twist, unbalance, unconformability,
      unconformity, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unorthodoxy,
      unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, warp, wrench, wrest, wring

    

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