disproportionableadj.
Out of due or symmetrical proportion; disproportionate.
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unproportioneda1500
unproportionate1535
misproportioned1552
disproportionate1555
disproportionated1572
unproportionable1576
improportionate1581
disproportionable1589
disproportioned1597
improportionable1601
disproportional1609
asymmetral1615
unproportional1628
overproportionated1647
improportioned1656
improportionala1662
over-proportioned1662
overproportionate1672
uncommensurate1676
incommensurate1684
incommensurable1820
1589 G. Puttenham Arte Eng. Poesie iii. xxiv. 232 So was the kings action proportionable to his estate and therefore decent, the Philosophers, disproportionable both to his profession and calling and therefore indecent.
1640 Bp. J. Wilkins Disc. New Planet (1707) vi. 209 Such an incredible Celerity, as is altogether disproportionable to its Bigness.
a1716 O. Blackall Wks. (1723) I. xv. 136 Seeing..the good and evil Things of this Life and of the next are so vastly disproportionable.
1772 J. Adams tr. A. de Ulloa Voy. S. Amer. (ed. 3) I. 124 Its belly is, in largeness, very disproportionable to its body.
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