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What is another word for out of all proportion?

Pronunciation: [ˌa͡ʊtəv ˈɔːl pɹəpˈɔːʃən] (IPA)

Out of all proportion is a phrase used to describe something that is excessive or disproportionate to its original size or importance. Synonyms for this phrase include overblown, exaggerated, hyperbolic, bloated, over-the-top, excessive, and disproportionate. Another way to describe this phenomenon is to say that something is blown out of proportion, magnified, or amplified. These terms can all be used to describe situations where emotions or reactions are disproportionate to the stimuli or events that trigger them. Overall, there are many ways to articulate the idea of something being out of all proportion, and each synonym has its own unique connotations and nuances.
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  • The importance to the writer of first writing must be out of all proportion of the actual value of what is written.
    Elizabeth Bowen
  • Do a little bit more than average and from that point on our progress multiplies itself out of all proportion to the effort put in.
    Paul J. Meyer
  • The man who can speak acceptably is usually given credit for an ability out of all proportion to what he really possesses.
    Lowell Thomas
  • A culture fixated on female thinness is not an obsession about female beauty, but an obsession about female obedience. Women's dieting has become what Yale psychologist Judith Rodin calls a 'normative obsession,' a never-ending passion play given international coverage out of all proportion to the health risks associated with obesity, and using emotive language that does not figure even in discussions of alcohol or tobacco abuse. […] Dieting is the most potent political sedative in women's history; a quietly mad population is a tractable one.
    Naomi Wolf
  • I knew Robert Burns, and I knew my father. Yet were you to ask me which had the greater natural faculty, I might perhaps actually pause before replying. Burns had an infinitely wider education, my father a far wholesomer. Besides, the one was a man of musical utterance; the other wholly a man of action, with speech subservient thereto. Never, of all the men I have seen, has one come personally in my way in whom the endowment from nature and the arena from fortune were so utterly out of all proportion. I have said this often, and partly know it. As a man of speculation — had culture ever unfolded him — he must have gone wild and desperate as Burns; hut he was a man of conduct, and work keeps all right. What strange shapable creatures we are!
    Thomas Carlyle

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