DISPROPORTION
\dˌɪspɹəpˈɔːʃən], \dˌɪspɹəpˈɔːʃən], \d_ˌɪ_s_p_ɹ_ə_p_ˈɔː_ʃ_ə_n]\
Definitions of DISPROPORTION
- 2006 - WordNet 3.0
- 2011 - English Dictionary Database
- 2010 - New Age Dictionary Database
- 1913 - Webster's Revised Unabridged Dictionary
- 1919 - The Winston Simplified Dictionary
- 1899 - The american dictionary of the english language.
- 1894 - The Clarendon dictionary
- 1919 - The Concise Standard Dictionary of the English Language
- 1908 - Chambers's Twentieth Century Dictionary of the English Language
- 1919 - The concise Oxford dictionary of current English
- 1871 - The Cabinet Dictionary of the English Language
- 1790 - A Complete Dictionary of the English Language
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By Princeton University
By DataStellar Co., Ltd
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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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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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To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
By Oddity Software
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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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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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To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
By Noah Webster.
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Want of symmetry; lack of proper or suitable relation in form, size, importance, etc.
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Disproportionate.
By William Dodge Lewis, Edgar Arthur Singer
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Want of proportion, symmetry, or suitableness of parts: inequality.
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To make unsuitable in form or size, etc.
By Daniel Lyons
By William Hand Browne, Samuel Stehman Haldeman
By James Champlin Fernald
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dis-pro-p[=o]r'shun, n. want of proportion, symmetry, or suitableness of parts: inequality.--v.t. to make unsuitable in form or size, &c.--n. DISPROPOR'TIONABLENESS.--adv. DISPROPOR'TIONABLY.--adjs. DISPROPOR'TIONAL, DISPROPOR'TIONABLE (arch.).--advs. DISPROPOR'TIONALLY, DISPROPOR'TIONABLY (arch.).--adj. DISPROPOR'TIONATE, not proportioned: unsymmetrical: unsuitable to something else in some respect.--adv. DISPROPOR'TIONATELY.--n. DISPROPOR'TIONATENESS.
By Thomas Davidson
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Want of proportion; being out of proportion; Hence disproportioned a.
By Sir Augustus Henry
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n. Want of proportion or of symmetry;—want of suitableness or adequacy; disparity; inequality.
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