Word Meanings - PROPORTIONLESS - Book Publishers vocabulary database

Without proportion; unsymmetrical.

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• PROPORTIONATE
  Adjusted to something else according to a proportion; proportional. Longfellow. What is proportionate to his transgression. Locke.
• WITHOUT-DOOR
  Outdoor; exterior. "Her without-door form." Shak.
• PROPORTION
  1. The relation or adaptation of one portion to another, or to the whole, as respect magnitude, quantity, or degree; comparative relation; ratio; as, the proportion of the parts of a building, or of the body. The image of Christ, made after his
• WITHOUTFORTH
  Without; outside' outwardly. Cf. Withinforth. Chaucer.
• PROPORTIONABLE
  Capable of being proportioned, or made proportional; also, proportional; proportionate. -- Pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. But eloquence may exist without a proportionable degree of wisdom. Burke.
• PROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being in proportion. Coleridge.
• PROPORTIONATENESS
  The quality or state of being proportionate. Sir M. Hale.
• PROPORTIONLESS
  Without proportion; unsymmetrical.
• WITHOUTEN
  Without. Chaucer.
• PROPORTIONABLY
  Proportionally. Locke.
• UNSYMMETRICALLY
  Not symmetrically.
• WITHOUT
  1. On or art the outside; not on the inside; not within; outwardly; externally. Without were fightings, within were fears. 2 Cor. vii. 5. 2. Outside of the house; out of doors. The people came unto the house without. Chaucer.
• PROPORTIONATELY
  In a proportionate manner; with due proportion; proportionally.
• PROPORTIONAL
  1. Having a due proportion, or comparative relation; being in suitable proportion or degree; as, the parts of an edifice are proportional. Milton. 2. Relating to, or securing, proportion. Hutton. 3. Constituting a proportion; having the same, or
• PROPORTIONMENT
  The act or process of dividing out proportionally.
• UNSYMMETRICAL
  Not symmetrical; being without symmetry, as the parts of a flower when similar parts are of different size and shape, or when the parts of successive circles differ in number. See Symmetry. (more info) 1. Wanting in symmetry, or due proportion
• PROPORTIONALLY
  In proportion; in due degree; adapted relatively; as, all parts of the building are proportionally large. Sir I. Newton.
• DISPROPORTIONALLY
  In a disproportional manner; unsuitably in form, quantity, or value; unequally.
• IMPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportionate.
• DISPROPORTIONABLE
  Disproportional; unsuitable in form, size, quantity, or adaptation; disproportionate; inadequate. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*ble*ness, n. Hammond. -- Dis`pro*por"tion*a*bly, adv.
• DISPROPORTIONALITY
  The state of being disproportional. Dr. H. More.
• MISPROPORTION
  To give wrong proportions to; to join without due proportion.
• DISPROPORTIONATE
  Not proportioned; unsymmetrical; unsuitable to something else in bulk, form, value, or extent; out of proportion; inadequate; as, in a perfect body none of the limbs are disproportionate; it is wisdom not to undertake a work disproportionate means.
• IMPROPORTIONABLE
  Not proportionable. B. Jonson.
• SUPERPROPORTION
  Overplus or excess of proportion. Sir K. Digby.
• DISPROPORTIONAL
  Not having due proportion to something else; not having proportion or symmetry of parts; unsuitable in form, quantity or value; inadequate; unequal; as, a disproportional limb constitutes deformity in the body; the studies of youth should not be
• UNDERPROPORTIONED
  Of inadequate or inferior proportions; small; poor. Scanty and underproportioned returns of civility. Collier.