If you don’t think you got a fair share of cake at a birthday party, there might have been a disproportion in the way the cake was served. A disproportion is a lack of balance or equality.
Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry;
Noun
lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something
n.
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.
n.
Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to
an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of
strength or means to an object.
v. t.
To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness
to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
Disproportion
Disproportion
To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part.
A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory.
Want of proportion in form or quantity; lack of symmetry;
To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
Usage Examples
An artist is an artist only because of his exquisite sense of beauty, a sense which shows him intoxicating pleasures, but which at the same time implies and contains an equally exquisite sense of all deformities and all disproportion.
Smallness in a great man seems smaller by its disproportion with all the rest.
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Other Usage ExamplesThe great proof of madness is the disproportion of one's designs to one's means.
Senator Douglas was very small, not over four and a half feet height, and there was a noticeable disproportion between the long trunk of his body and his short legs. His chest was broad and indicated great strength of lungs.
I think the one thing this picture shows that's new is the psychological disproportion of the kids' demands on the parents. Parents are often at fault, but the kids have some work to do, too.
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