Disproportion is valid Scrabble Word

Definitions for DISPROPORTION in dictionary:

VERB:
• to make out of proportion
• To make unsuitable in quantity, form, or fitness to an end; to violate symmetry in; to mismatch; to join unfitly.
NOUN:
• an instance of being out of proportion with something else
• 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.
• Want of suitableness, adequacy, or due proportion to an end or use; unsuitableness; disparity; as, the disproportion of strength or means to an object.
• lack of proportion; imbalance among the parts of something
OTHER DEFINITIONS:
• lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation; disparity; an instance of such disparity

Words related to DISPROPORTION

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Words that contain DISPROPORTION

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How to use DISPROPORTION in a sentence

• In spite however of this disproportion of forces he advanced to meet the enemy, and dispersed it with a great Turkish loss of fifteen thousand men.
• Hence there was a great disproportion of the slain in battle between peasants and their mounted masters.
• The disproportion between the subject and the satire instantly impresses the reader.
• Indeed, nothing was more marked and melancholy at Rome than the vast disproportion in fortunes.
• The assemblage of Indians was large, but I was struck by the great disproportion, or excess, of women and children.
• Now I want to add that this disproportion of the sexes is quite artificial, and, therefore, should be temporary.
• I know that this method of composition, if it has the merit of freshness, entails some inequality of style and disproportion in the distribution of materials.
• The disproportion between the deaths of adults and those of children, which has been a subject for comment by every writer on Mormonism, is peculiarly noticeable there.
• The transportation of at least ten males for one female, maintains a great disproportion between the sexes.
• Remove this disproportion and you settle the whole question.
• Desmond and his six companions now had fourteen prisoners on their hands, and in ordinary circumstances the disproportion would have been fatal.
• What did Caesar consider necessary to be done to remedy this dis-proportion? 11.
• The disproportion between means of attack and defense was enormous.
• At other times it might have conveyed a painful sense of disproportion in its application to what, from another point of view, was a mere political revolution.
• Could any circumstance seduce me to overlook the disproportion between its duties and my talents, it would be the encouragement of your choice.
• The disproportion between his subject and the means he has of expressing it is too strong.
• But for a foole to talke foolishly or a wiseman wisely, there is no such absurditie or disproportion.
• Our asylum insane are largely recruited from the Jewish race, at least recruited in tremendous disproportion to their number in the population.
• The two elder sisters felt strongly the disproportion of their marriages to that of their younger sister.
• Let the reader briefly be reminded, then, that, as I have previously argued, Nature makes no arrangement for such a disproportion between the sexes.
• In lowering the infant mortality we shall reduce this disproportion of male deaths, and shall make for the survival of a larger number of men.
• He was feeble and small of stature, but the thing about him that struck you at first sight was the disproportion between his shrunken body and his immense head.
• Crowe and Cavalcaselle have called attention to a certain disproportion in the size of the head, as compared with that of the surrounding actors in the scene.
• The greater the disproportion between the unit who commands and the numbers who obey, the greater the chance of mutiny.
• Less than 60,000 Confederate soldiers were available to oppose this enormous host, and the numerical disproportion was increased by the vast material resources of the North.
• It is a sublimity born of defect or at least of disproportion.
• Here we have nearly the largest disproportion of whites to slaves in any part of the South.
• The whole business of love, and love-making and marrying, is painted by the novelists in a monstrous disproportion to the other relations of life.
• With such a dangerous disproportion, the whole must needs be governed by them.
• And once more, the inharmonious and unseemly nature can only tend to disproportion? Undoubtedly.

Similar words containing PROPOR without suffix tion and without prefix dis

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