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English
Etymology
From Middle English uneven, from Old English unefen (“unequal, unlike, dissimilar, diverse, irregular”), equivalent to un- + even. Cognate with Dutch oneven (“unequal, uneven, odd”), German uneben (“uneven, rough, irregular, bumpy”).
Pronunciation
Adjective
uneven (comparative more uneven, superlative most uneven)
- Not even
- Not level or smooth
- Not uniform
2022 November 30, Paul Bigland, “Destination Oban: a Sunday in Scotland”, in RAIL, number 971, page 79:I've spent hours on overcrowded trains, and time on ones which were almost empty, because the recovery [from COVID] has been uneven.
- Varying in quality
2006 October 5, Leslie Feinberg, “Early left-wing liberation: 'Unity with all the oppressed'”, in Workers World:Even white activists who lacked a thoroughgoing anti-racist consciousness or were uneven in their understanding saw unity in the struggle against all forms of oppression as key.
- (mathematics, rare) Odd
- Antonym: even
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not even
- Bulgarian: нечетен (bg) (nečeten), тек (bg) (tek)
- Catalan: desigual (ca)
- Czech: nerovný m
- Danish: ujævn
- Dutch: oneven (nl)
- Esperanto: malebena
- Finnish: pariton (fi)
- Georgian: არათანაბარი (aratanabari), უთანაბრო (utanabro), არასწორი (arasc̣ori), უსწორმასწორო (usc̣ormasc̣oro), უთანასწორო (utanasc̣oro)
- German: uneben (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos), ἄνισος (ánisos)
- Irish: anacair, míchothrom
- Latin: inīquus, impār
- Maori: pāhikahika, moana (mi), karawhiti
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ujevn, ujamn, kupert (no)
- Nynorsk: ujamn
- Portuguese: desigual (pt)
- Russian: неро́вный (ru) (neróvnyj), нечётный (ru) (nečótnyj) (odd)
- Spanish: desigual (es), desnivel (es) m
- Swedish: ojämn (sv)
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not level or smooth
- Belarusian: няро́ўны (njaróŭny)
- Bulgarian: неравен (bg) (neraven), грапав (bg) (grapav)
- Catalan: rugós (ca)
- Czech: nerovnoměrný
- Danish: ujævn
- Esperanto: monotona (eo)
- Finnish: epätasainen (fi)
- French: inégal (fr)
- Georgian: უსწორმასწორო (usc̣ormasc̣oro)
- German: uneben (de)
- Greek:
- Ancient: ἀνώμαλος (anṓmalos), ἄνισος (ánisos)
- Hungarian: egyenetlen (hu)
- Irish: aimhréidh, cnocánach, míchothrom
- Latin: asper
- Maori: pāhiwihiwi, torehapehape (of a surface), whakanokenoke (of the ground surface)
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: ujevn, ujamn
- Nynorsk: ujamn
- Old English: unsmēþe
- Plautdietsch: ruch
- Portuguese: desnivelado (pt)
- Romanian: denivelat (ro)
- Russian: неро́вный (ru) (neróvnyj), негла́дкий (ru) (negládkij), шерохова́тый (ru) (šeroxovátyj)
- Spanish: desnivelado (es), desnivel (es) m
- Ukrainian: нері́вний (nerívnyj)
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See also
Verb
uneven (third-person singular simple present unevens, present participle unevening, simple past and past participle unevened)
- (transitive) To make uneven.
1993, Travel Holiday, volume 176, page 56:Initially it nestled among the dozens of Indian mounds that unevened the earth near the river until they were leveled to accommodate commerce.
2006, Jack Temple Kirby, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South, page 128:First, of course, the war reduced the white male, mostly young adult, population by more than a quarter-million, unevening the sex ratio and connubial and other opportunities for women for perhaps a generation.