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    [Noun]  | "dis*pro*por*tion" | \ ˌdis-prə-ˈpȯr-shən \


    1: lack of proportion, symmetry, or proper relation : disparity; also : an instance of such disparity


    Origin: 1555 ;

     Borrowed from Middle French & New Latin; Middle French, borrowed from New Latin disprōportiōn-, disprōportiō, from Latin dis- {see: |dis-|dis-} + prōportiōn-, prōportiō "analogy, {see: |proportion:1|proportion:1}";

      * Note : A derivation that is perhaps just as likely is back-formation from disprōportiōnāre —see: {disproportionate|disproportionate}. The noun disprōportiō was most likely current in later Medieval Latin, despite the lack of textual attestation, given the fifteenth-century instance of disproportion cited in Dictionnaire du moyen français. Compare also {disproportion:2|disproportion:2}.;

    [Verb]  | "disproportion" 


    1: to make out of proportion : mismatch


    Origin: 1593 ;

     Borrowed from Middle French disproportionner, borrowed from Medieval Latin disprōportiōnāre{mat|disproportionate|};

     [ "disproportionator" ]

    1: someone that asks a lot of really stupid questions

      * e.g.,  ... Dude, that freshman is such a disproportionator, she asked me where the 300 hallway was and she was standing right in front of it. 

     [ "Disproportionate" ]

    1: Something that is too big or too small in comparison to something else, such as a left leg to a right leg.

      * e.g.,  ... "Her left breast is disproportionate in comparison to her right breast." 

     [ "disproportionableness" ]

    1: tis the unability to be proportionable

      * e.g.,  ... ermm... tis good for spelling tests! 

     [ "Bird that carries you over a disproportionately small gap" ]

    1: the savior of us all.

      * e.g.,  ... To get from one area of the Waterfall to another, I ask the Bird that carries you over a disproportionately small gap for help. 

     [ "disproportionated" ]

    1:  similar to the word "dislocated", but in this case it's when something has became disproportional. off-center.

      * e.g.,  ... "that painting is disproportionated!" 

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