disproportionately

UK/ˌdɪs.pɹəˈpɔː.ʃə.nət.li/Canada, US/ˌdɪs.pɹəˈpɔɹ.ʃə.nət.li/Australia/ˌdɪs.pɹəˈpoː.ʃə.nət.li/New Zealand/ˌdəs.pɹəˈpoː.ʃə.nət.li/

adverb

in a disproportionate manner

Less commonScrabble 26

Meanings

adverbdisproportionately (comparative more disproportionately, superlative most disproportionately)

comparative more disproportionately · superlative most disproportionately

  1. in a disproportionate manner
    1 more example

    Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”

    2013 May 23, Sarah Lyall, “British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 12 Nov 2020, retrieved 29 May 2013

Synonyms & antonyms

adverbin a manner which is out of proportion

adverbto a disproportionate degree

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

Translations

Catalan desproporcionadament
  • desproporcionadamentin a disproportionate manner
Czech neúměrně
  • neúměrněin a disproportionate manner
Danish uforholdsmæssigt, urimeligt
  • uforholdsmæssigtin a disproportionate manner
  • urimeligtin a disproportionate manner
Finnish suhteettomasti, epäsuhtaisesti
  • suhteettomastiin a disproportionate manner
  • epäsuhtaisestiin a disproportionate manner
Hungarian aránytalanul
  • aránytalanulin a disproportionate manner
Norwegian Bokmål uforholdsmessig
  • uforholdsmessigin a disproportionate manner
Polish nieproporcjonalnie
  • nieproporcjonalniein a disproportionate manner
Russian непропорциона́льно
  • непропорциона́льно (neproporcionálʹno)in a disproportionate manner
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Chicago

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