unequal
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English
[edit]Alternative forms
[edit]Etymology
[edit]From Middle English unequale, equivalent to un- + equal. Compare German unegal (“unlevel, uneven”).
Pronunciation
[edit]- IPA(key): /ʌnˈiːkwəl/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - Rhymes: -iːkwəl
- Hyphenation: un‧equal
Adjective
[edit]unequal (comparative more unequal, superlative most unequal)
- Not the same.
- Synonyms: see Thesaurus:unequal
- Out of balance.
- (comparable) Inadequate; insufficiently capable or qualified.
- unequal to the task
- Erratic, inconsistent.
- 1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 1:
- Her manner to Francesca was very unequal. Sometimes it had all the frankness of their early intimacy; at other times it was forbidding, and even petulant.
Derived terms
[edit]Translations
[edit]not the same
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out of balance
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Noun
[edit]unequal (plural unequals)
- One who is not an equal.
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