1.
[syn: disproportionate, disproportional]
2. not proportionate;
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
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]
WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):
disproportionate
adj 1: out of proportion [syn: disproportionate,
disproportional] [ant: proportionate]
2: not proportionate
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
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