DISPROPORTIONATE

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does disproportionate mean? 

• DISPROPORTIONATE (adjective)
  The adjective DISPROPORTIONATE has 2 senses:

1. out of proportion

2. not proportionate

  Familiarity information: DISPROPORTIONATE used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• DISPROPORTIONATE (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Out of proportion

Synonyms:

disproportional; disproportionate

Antonym:

proportionate (being in due proportion)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Not proportionate

Similar:

incommensurate (not corresponding in size or degree or extent)

 Context examples 

An exaggerated feeling of well-being which is disproportionate to events and stimuli.

(Euphoria, NCI Thesaurus)

Bleeding that is disproportionate to the offending trauma.

(Easy Bleeding, NCI Thesaurus)

And try to restrain the disproportionate fervour with which you throw yourself into commonplace home pleasures.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

A disorder characterized by an exaggerated feeling of well-being which is disproportionate to events and stimuli.

(Euphoria, NCI Thesaurus/CTCAE)

I was very much depressed in spirits; very solitary; and felt an uneasiness in Ham's not being there, disproportionate to the occasion.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

She was quite pained by the severity of his father's reproof, which seemed disproportionate to the offence; and much was her concern increased when she found herself the principal cause of the lecture, and that his tardiness was chiefly resented from being disrespectful to her.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Again her large bonnet (very disproportionate to the figure) went backwards and forwards, in her swaying of her little body to and fro; while a most gigantic bonnet rocked, in unison with it, upon the wall.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

With this announcement he rose from his chair, and stood, leaning his arm on the marble mantelpiece: in that attitude his shape was seen plainly as well as his face; his unusual breadth of chest, disproportionate almost to his length of limb.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)