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From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.44 [gcide]:
Unequal \Un*e"qual\, adjective [Cf. {Inequal}.]
1. Not equal; not matched; not of the same size, length, breadth, quantity, strength, talents, acquirements, age, station, or the like; as, the fingers are of unequal length; peers and commoners are unequal in rank.
2. Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.
Against unequal arms to fight in pain. --Milton.
Jerome, a very unequal relator of the opinion of his adversaries. --John Worthington.
To punish me for what you make me do Seems much unequal. --Shak.
3. Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.
4. Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain.
5. (Bot.) Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.
From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]:
unequal
adjective
1: not equal in amount; "they distributed unlike (or unequal) sums to the various charities" [syn: {unlike}] [ant: {like}]
2: poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure [ant: {equal}]
From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]:
159 Moby Thesaurus words for "unequal": assorted, asymmetric, at odds, at variance, broken, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changing, choppy, contrary, contrasted, contrasting, departing, desultory, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, differentiated, differing, disaccordant, disagreeing, disconnected, discontinuous, discordant, discrepant, discrete, discriminated, disjoined, disorderly, disparate, disproportionate, dissimilar, dissonant, distant, distinct, distinguished, divaricate, divergent, diverging, divers, diverse, diversified, diversiform, eccentric, erose, erratic, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, guttering, halting, herky-jerky, heteroclite, heterogeneous, ill-matched, ill-sorted, illegal, immethodical, impulsive, in disagreement, inaccordant, inadequate, incompatible, incongruous, inconsistent, inconsonant, inconstant, inequitable, inharmonious, iniquitous, insufficient, intermittent, intermitting, irreconcilable, irregular, jagged, jerky, lurching, many, mercurial, mismatched, motley, multifarious, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonsymmetrical, nonuniform, odd, off-balance, out of proportion, overbalanced, patchy, pluralistic, poles apart, poles asunder, ragged, rambling, rough, scrappy, separate, separated, several, skew, skewed, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, unalike, unbalanced, uncertain, unconformable, undeserved, undue, unequable, unequitable, uneven, unjust, unlawful, unlike, unmeet, unmerited, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unregular, unrhythmical, unrightful, unsettled, unsimilar, unstable, unsteady, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, ununiform, variable, variant, varied, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, wandering, wavering, widely apart, wobbling, wobbly, worlds apart, wrong, wrongful
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