Synonyms for disproportionate
- adjective
Synonyms by meaning
Adjective
1. Inordinate — out of proportion
inordinate, excessive, exorbitant, extortionate, extravagant, penal, usurious
2. Nonproportionate — not proportionate
Definitions
- adj. 1
Not proportionate.
disproportionate response
- adj. 2
Out of proportion.
Related words
- Word family
- disproportionately disproportionateness
Example sentences
- excessive The government's expenditures are a bit excessive.
- exorbitant Originally, the salesman named an exorbitant price.
- inordinate You're spending an inordinate amount of time there.
- inadequate At times like this, words are woefully inadequate.
- disproportional I don't like those disproportional weight lifters.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| disproportionate | steady | |
| excessive | falling | |
| exorbitant | falling | |
| inordinate | steady | |
| extortionate | falling | |
| inadequate | falling |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 5 letters
- penal2
- 8 letters
- usurious
- 9 letters
- excessive3
- 10 letters
- inadequate4, exorbitant4, inordinate4
- 11 letters
- extravagant4
- 12 letters
- extortionate4
- 13 letters
- unsymmetrical
- 14 letters
- incommensurate, unproportional
- 15 letters
- disproportional, unproportionate
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (penal2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- disproportionné
- Italiano
- sproporzionato
- Español
- desproporcionado
- Deutsch
- unverhältnismäßig