unequal
Etymology
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Etymology
From Middle English unequale, equivalent to un- + equal.
Pronunciation- IPA: /ʌnˈiːkwəl/
unequal
- Not the same.
- 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.
- Italian: impari
unequal (plural unequals)
- One who is not an equal.
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