unequal

[Un*e·qual]

Poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure

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Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.

Adjective
poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure

Adjective
not equal in amount; "they distributed unlike (or unequal) sums to the various charities"


a.
Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.

a.
Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.

a.
Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.

a.
Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain.

a.
Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.


Unequal

Un*e"qual , a. [Cf. Inequal.] 1. Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank. 2. Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.
Against unequal arms to fight in pain.
Jerome, a very unequal relator of the opinion of his adversaries.
To punish me for what you make me do Seems much unequal.
3. Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem. 4. Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain. 5. (Bot.) Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.

Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.

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Usage Examples

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.

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Other Usage Examples

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.

What has destroyed every previous civilization has been the tendency to the unequal distribution of wealth and power.

I came from a family where joining a union was the expected thing to do. I've always believed that the relationship between an employer and an individual worker is fundamentally unequal.

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.

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