disproportion
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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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