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Definition of Unequal

Unequal

  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.
  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. Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.

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

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

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

I cannot understand how the education of this United States of America has been fooled time and time again. Either make it separate but equal or integrate, therefore it will be equal. And it has been separate and unequal.
Bill Cosby
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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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