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Wordnet 3.0

NOUN (1)

1. lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something;


The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disproportion \Dis`pro*por"tion\, n. [Pref. dis- + proportion: cf. F. disproportion.] 1. 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. [1913 Webster] 2. Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object. [1913 Webster]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Disproportion \Dis`pro*por"tion\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Disproportioned; p. pr. & vb. n. Disproportioning.] To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly. [1913 Webster] To shape my legs of an unequal size; To disproportion me in every part. --Shak. [1913 Webster] A degree of strength altogether disproportioned to the extent of its territory. --Prescott. [1913 Webster]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

disproportion n 1: lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something [ant: proportion, symmetry]
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:

95 Moby Thesaurus words for "disproportion": ambiguity, ambivalence, anamorphism, anamorphosis, antinomy, asymmetry, buckle, contortion, contrariety, crookedness, derangement, detorsion, deviation, difference, disarrangement, disarray, disarticulation, discomfiture, discomposure, disconcertedness, disequilibrium, disharmony, dishevelment, disintegration, disjunction, disorder, disorderliness, disorganization, disparity, disproportionateness, disruption, dissimilarity, distortion, disturbance, entropy, equivocality, gnarl, haphazardness, heresy, heterodoxy, heterogeneity, imbalance, imparity, inadequacy, incoherence, incommensurability, incompatibility, incongruity, inconsistency, inconsonance, indiscriminateness, inequality, inequity, inharmonious harmony, injustice, insufficiency, irreconcilability, irregularity, knot, lopsidedness, most admired disorder, nonconformability, nonconformity, nonsymmetry, nonuniformity, odds, overbalance, oxymoron, paradox, perturbation, promiscuity, promiscuousness, quirk, randomness, screw, self-contradiction, shortcoming, torsion, tortuosity, turbulence, turn, twist, unbalance, unconformability, unconformity, unevenness, unfair discrimination, unorthodoxy, unsymmetry, ununiformity, upset, warp, wrench, wrest, wring