Antonyms for unequal
| Grammar : Adj |
| Spell : uhn-ee-kwuh l |
| Phonetic Transcription : ʌnˈi kwəl |
Definition of unequal
Origin :- 1530s, "unjust, unfair," from un- (1) "not" + equal (adj.). Meaning "not the same in amount, size, quality, etc." is recorded from 1560s (inequal in this sense is from late 14c.). Sense of "inadequate, insufficient" (to some task) is attested from 1690s.
- adj different
- adj not balanced; lopsided
- It is an unequal bargain, where one side does all the loving.
- Extract from : « Malbone » by Thomas Wentworth Higginson
- He saw, too, that she was stiffening herself as if for some unequal contest.
- Extract from : « The Fortune Hunter » by Louis Joseph Vance
- But for my day's fast I should have been unequal to this, or to the crude output of their frying-pans.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He seemed fascinated and yet unequal to a straight look at me.
- Extract from : « Ruggles of Red Gap » by Harry Leon Wilson
- He did not dare express all his rancour, while he was unequal to suppressing it entirely.
- Extract from : « Homeward Bound » by James Fenimore Cooper
- Proportion the connection of unequal quantities with each other.
- Extract from : « Modern Painters Volume II (of V) » by John Ruskin
- The tubes are adnate, their mouths large, unequal; lemon-yellow.
- Extract from : « The Mushroom, Edible and Otherwise » by M. E. Hard
- But to contend with a master of legions is ever an unequal struggle.
- Extract from : « Byzantine Churches in Constantinople » by Alexander Van Millingen
- What principle of rival Sophists or anybody else can overcome in such an unequal contest?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- For now, as always, I am unequal to the refutation of not-being.
- Extract from : « Sophist » by Plato
Synonyms for unequal
- asymmetrical
- differing
- disparate
- disproportionate
- dissimilar
- distant
- divergent
- diverse
- ill-matched
- incommensurate
- inequitable
- irregular
- like night and day
- mismatched
- nonsymmetrical
- not uniform
- odd
- off-balance
- one-sided
- overbalanced
- poles apart
- unalike
- unbalanced
- unequivalent
- uneven
- unlike
- unmatched
- unproportionate
- unsimilar
- unsymmetrical
- variable
- various
- varying
- weird
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