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disproportioned

UK/dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃənd/

disproportioned adjective: badly proportioned; disproportionate.

Adjective

disproportioned (comparative more disproportioned, superlative most disproportioned)

  1. Badly proportioned; disproportionate.
    • His Lordship might indeed seek to raise his vanity by allusions to the disproportioned marriage he was about forming; but, with no heart to bestow on any of the sex, his affections entombed, how could he come forward, and feel himself entitled to make proposals to any, under other circumstances...1838, [Letitia Elizabeth] Landon (indicated as editor), chapter XVII, in Duty and Inclination: […], volume II, London: Henry Colburn, […], →OCLC, page 244
    • […] and that no mortal man can be so innocent as to feel any infliction wholly unmerited and disproportioned […]1867, Charlotte Mary Yonge, The trial: more links of the daisy chain, pages 56–57

Forms of disproportioned

comparativemore disproportioned
superlativemost disproportioned

Origin of disproportioned

From dis- + proportioned.

Questions about disproportioned

What does disproportioned mean?
Disproportioned means badly proportioned; disproportionate.
What part of speech is disproportioned?
Disproportioned is an adjective.
How do you pronounce disproportioned?
Disproportioned is pronounced /dɪspɹəˈpɔːʃənd/ (UK).

Words near disproportioned in the dictionary

  1. disproportionateness
  2. disproportionates
  3. disproportionating
  4. disproportionation
  5. disproportionations
  6. disproportioned
  7. disproportioning
  8. disproportions
  9. dispropriate
  10. dispropriated
  11. dispropriates

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