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unproportioned

unproportioned adjective: not proportioned.

Adjective

unproportioned (comparative more unproportioned, superlative most unproportioned)

  1. Not proportioned.
    • The teaching school, an useful and virtuous occupation, even the teaching in a private family, was in every Catholic subjected to the same unproportioned punishment.1887, Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12)
    • At last the story of Winnie Verloc stood out complete from the days of her childhood to the end, unproportioned as yet, with everything still on the first plan, as it were; but ready now to be dealt with.1921, Joseph Conrad, Notes on My Books

Forms of unproportioned

comparativemore unproportioned
superlativemost unproportioned

Origin of unproportioned

From un- + proportioned.

Questions about unproportioned

What does unproportioned mean?
Unproportioned means not proportioned.
What part of speech is unproportioned?
Unproportioned is an adjective.

Words near unproportioned in the dictionary

  1. unproportionalities
  2. unproportionality
  3. unproportionally
  4. unproportionate
  5. unproportionately
  6. unproportioned
  7. unproposed
  8. unproposing
  9. unpropounded
  10. unpropped
  11. unpropping

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