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English
Etymology
From Middle English unequale, equivalent to un- + equal. Compare German unegal (“unlevel, uneven”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
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 E L, 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.
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Noun
unequal (plural unequals)
- One who is not an equal.