disproportionately
To an extent that is too large or too small in comparison to something else; unfairly uneven.
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IELTS-Verwendung
Highlighting inequality or imbalance in Task 2 and Speaking; describing statistical bias in Reading.
Beispiele
- Low-income households are disproportionately affected by rising energy costs.
- Women are disproportionately represented in part-time and low-paid jobs.
Kollokationen
- disproportionately affected
- Coastal communities are disproportionately affected by rising sea levels.
Wortfamilie
- Nomen
- disproportion
- Adjektiv
- disproportionate
- Adverb
- disproportionately
Paraphrasen
- overly/underly represented: Useful for demographic data.
- unequally: Simpler synonym, but less precise.
Häufige Fehler
- unproportionally to disproportionately. 'Unproportionally' is not a standard English word.
- disproportionately high than to disproportionately higher than. Use the comparative form of the adjective after 'disproportionately'.