unproportioned

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English[edit]

Etymology[edit]

un- +‎ proportioned

Adjective[edit]

unproportioned (comparative more unproportioned, superlative most unproportioned)

  1. Not proportioned.
    • 1887, Edmund Burke, The Works of the Right Honourable Edmund Burke, Vol. II. (of 12)[1]:
      The teaching school, an useful and virtuous occupation, even the teaching in a private family, was in every Catholic subjected to the same unproportioned punishment.
    • 1921, Joseph Conrad, Notes on My Books[2]:
      At last the story of Winnie Verloc stood out complete from the days of her childhood to the end, unproportioned as yet, with everything still on the first plan, as it were; but ready now to be dealt with.