Definition of Unequal

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Unequal

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.

Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.

Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal pulsations; an unequal poem.

Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the sudden strain.

Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.

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Unequal Quotations

The inherent vice of capitalism is the unequal sharing of blessings; the inherent virtue of socialism is the equal sharing of miseries.
Winston Churchill

The worst form of inequality is to try to make unequal things equal.
Aristotle

Speech is the twin of my vision, it is unequal to measure itself, it provokes me forever, it says sarcastically, Walt you contain enough, why don't you let it out then?
Walt Whitman

Because your own strength is unequal to the task, do not assume that it is beyond the powers of man; but if anything is within the powers and province of man, believe that it is within your own compass also.
Marcus Aurelius

Americans are so enamored of equality that they would rather be equal in slavery than unequal in freedom.
Alexis de Tocqueville

Nature has never read the Declaration of Independence. It continues to make us unequal.
Will Durant

I should like to suggest to you that the cause of all the economic troubles is that we have an economic system which tries to maintain an equality of value between two things, which it would be better to recognise from the beginning as of unequal value.
Paul Dirac

Again two manufacturers may employ the same amount of fixed, and the same amount of circulating capital; but the durability of their fixed capitals may be very unequal.
David Ricardo

Separate educational facilities are inherently unequal.
Earl Warren

All things being equal, people will do business with a friend; all things being unequal, people will still do business with a friend.
Mark McCormack

Unequal Translations

unequal in German is unsymetrisch, ungleich, ungleich
unequal in Italian is ineguale
unequal in Latin is iniquus
unequal in Spanish is dispar

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