Disproportionate

3 definitions found

From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]:

  Disproportionate \Dis`pro*por"tion*ate\, a.
     Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else
     in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion;
     inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are
     disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work
     disproportionate means. -- {Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ly}, adv. --


     {Dis`pro*por"tion*ate*ness}, n.
     [1913 Webster]

From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:

  disproportionate
       adj 1: out of proportion [syn: {disproportional}] [ant: {proportionate}]
       2: not proportionate

From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:

  154 Moby Thesaurus words for "disproportionate":
     abnormal, absurd, aggrandized, aimless, amorphous, amplified,
     anomalous, antagonistic, antipathetic, asymmetric, asymmetrical,
     at cross-purposes, at loggerheads, at odds, at variance, at war,
     ballyhooed, capricious, casual, clashing, contradictory, contrary,
     cranky, cross, desultory, differing, disaccordant, disagreeable,
     disagreeing, disarticulated, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant,
     disharmonious, disjunct, disordered, disparate, dispersed,
     dissident, dissimilar, dissonant, divergent, erratic, exaggerated,
     excessive, exorbitant, extravagant, extreme, fitful, formless,
     frivolous, grandiloquent, grating, gratuitous, haphazard,
     high-flown, hit-or-miss, hostile, hyperbolic, ill-matched,
     ill-sorted, immethodical, immiscible, inaccordant, inadequate,
     inchoate, incoherent, incommensurable, incommensurate,
     incompatible, incongruous, inconsequent, inconsistent, inconsonant,
     indiscriminate, inflated, inharmonious, inordinate, insufficient,
     irreconcilable, irregular, jangling, jarring, lopsided, magnified,
     meaningless, mismatched, misshapen, negative, nonsymmetrical,
     nonsystematic, nonuniform, odd, off-balance, orderless,
     out of accord, out of proportion, out of whack, overbalanced,
     overdone, overdrawn, overemphasized, overemphatic, overestimated,
     overgreat, overlarge, overpraised, oversold, overstated,
     overstressed, overwrought, oxymoronic, paradoxical, planless,
     prodigal, profuse, promiscuous, puffed, random, repugnant,
     self-contradictory, senseless, shapeless, skew, skewed, spasmodic,
     sporadic, straggling, straggly, stretched, superlative, systemless,
     touted, unarranged, unbalanced, unclassified, uncongenial,
     undirected, unequal, uneven, unfair, ungraded, unharmonious,
     unjoined, unmethodical, unordered, unorganized, unsorted,
     unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, vague, variant,
     wandering