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Disproportionate vs Disproportionately - What's the difference?

disproportionate | disproportionately |

As an adjective disproportionate

is not proportionate.

As a verb disproportionate

is to undergo disproportionation.

As an adverb disproportionately is

in a disproportionate manner.

disproportionate

English

Adjective

(en adjective)
  • Not proportionate.
  • Out of proportion.
  • Verb

    (disproportionat)
  • (chemistry) To undergo disproportionation
  • disproportionately

    English

    Adverb

    (en adverb)
  • in a disproportionate manner
  • * 2013 May 23, , " British Leader’s Liberal Turn Sets Off a Rebellion in His Party," New York Times (retrieved 29 May 2013):
  • Capitalizing on the restive mood, Mr. Farage, the U.K. Independence Party leader, took out an advertisement in The Daily Telegraph this week inviting unhappy Tories to defect. In it Mr. Farage sniped that the Cameron government — made up disproportionately of career politicians who graduated from Eton and Oxbridge — was “run by a bunch of college kids, none of whom have ever had a proper job in their lives.”