disproportionately
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7.1
- adverb
- /ˌdɪsprəˈpɔːrʃənətli/
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desproporcionadamente
- The pandemic has disproportionately impacted small businesses rather than large corporations.
- disproportionately affect
- disproportionately represented
- disproportionately high
It's basically, you know, a lot of people have a disproportionately hard life.
- It's basically, you know, a lot of people have a disproportionately hard life.
- So younger people tend to be disproportionately searched.
- How is we're going to make sure that women don't get disproportionately hit by those those changes?
- The current stimulus plans have been disproportionately helping the haves, the people owning stocks.
- Coercive control is very much a pattern that is disproportionately observed in malignant narcissists.
- You're a bully if you use power disproportionately.
- And if this tax hurts disproportionately poorer people, then this is not a good solution.
- And that's because disproportionately they own fewer assets than white and Asian people.
- And so you're what I predicted back then was that some people would benefit disproportionately.
- So abortion is disproportionately a kind of black genocide.
- And it's worst our government gets disproportionately involved, which will be fine.
Examples
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The current stimulus plans have been disproportionately helping the haves, the people owning stocks.
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In men, depression is disproportionately about lack of control.
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It's basically, you know, a lot of people have a disproportionately hard life.
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Instead, funding is given disproportionately to one religious organization while other ones are being denied.
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The sample used in this study consisted of a disproportionately large number of Asian American students.
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And if this tax hurts disproportionately poorer people, then this is not a good solution.
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The environmental costs are disproportionately borne by those people who can least afford it, such as the urban poor.
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Racial and ethnic minorities are going to be disproportionately affected by this.
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During the Reagan expansion, small firms contributed disproportionately to GNP as well as to employment.
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Students of poverty and of color are disproportionately on the receiving end of school suspensions, expulsions, and disciplinary action.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
∞
1.0
More than is needed or wanted
∞
1.2
More than is needed or healthy
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3.5
To a degree that is too much or not wanted
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4.6
Too strong or big compared with what the situation needs
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3.0
To a degree that is more than needed or acceptable
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6.9
More than is reasonable or necessary
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4.1
In a way that is unfair or much too extreme
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7.5
To a much greater degree than is normal
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8.9
In a way that is very unfair or too harsh
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7.3
Much more expensive than it should be
In a way that is more than needed
Antonyms
How Disproportionate
Surface Forms
Morphology
disproportionately = disproportionate (semi-transparent) = dis + proportion + ate + ly
This is a standard adverb formation from the adjective 'disproportionate', meaning 'in a disproportionate way'.
Etymology
The word disproportionately breaks into dis- meaning 'not' and proportion meaning a 'correct share' or 'balance', a root you can see in the common word portion. So, if something happens disproportionately, it happens in the wrong amount compared with something else, usually too much or too little.