From Middle English unequale, equivalent to un- + equal.

• IPA: /ʌnˈiːkwəl/

unequal

1. Not the same.
2. Out of balance.
3. (comparable) Inadequate; insufficiently capable or qualified.

   unequal to the task

4. 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.

• German: ungleich
• Italian: diseguale
• Spanish: desigual

• Italian: impari

unequal (plural unequals)

1. One who is not an equal.