Meaning of UNEVEN
| Pronunciation: | | un'eevun
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- [adj] inconsistent in quality
- [adj] (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents; "vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church"
- [adj] not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain"
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| | Synonyms: | | crinkled, crinkly, cross-grained, inconsistent, irregular, jagged, jaggy, lumpy, mismatched, out of true, patchy, ragged, rippled, scraggy, spotty, unequal, unparallel, untrue, wavelike, wavy |
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| | Antonyms: | | even | | |
| | See Also: | | rough, unsmooth, unsteady | |
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| | Definition: | | \Un*e"ven\, a. [AS. unefen. See {Un-} not, and {Even},
a.]
1. Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven
road or way; uneven ground.
2. Not equal; not of equal length.
Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet. --Peacham.
3. Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of
numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers.
{Un*e"ven*ly}, adv. -- {Un*e"ven*ness}, n.
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