Uneven

Definition: Uneven

Uneven

Adjective

1. Not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture; "an uneven color"; "uneven ground"; "uneven margins"; "wood with an uneven grain".

2. (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents; "vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church".

3. Inconsistent in quality.

Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved.
 

Date "uneven" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Note: Uneven \Un*e"ven\, adjective. [from Anglo-Saxon expression unefen. See Un- not, and Even,]. (references)

Synonyms: Uneven

Inequality

Adjective: unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced; top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant.

Nonuniformity

Adjective: diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough; multifarious; multiform; of various kinds; all manner of, all sorts of, all kinds of.

Roughness

Adjective: rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly,knotted; rugged, rugose, rugous; knurly; asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn; craggy, cragged; crankling, scraggy; prickly; (sharp); arborescent; leafy, well-wooded; feathery; plumose, plumigerous; laciniate, laciniform, laciniose; pappose; pileous, pilose; trichogenous, trichoid; tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute; crinose, crinite; bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged; fringed, befringed; setous, setose, setaceous; "like quills upon the fretful porcupine"; rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear.

Crosswords: Uneven

Books

• Call Me Kick!: Iliads/Odysseys/Ills and Odds Uneven (reference)

• Negotiating at an Uneven Table : Developing Moral Courage in Resolving Our Conflicts (reference)

• The Global Region: Production, State Policies and Uneven Development (Policy, Planning and Critical Theory) (reference)

• Uneven Advantage (reference)

• Whose World Order?: Uneven Globalization and the End of the Cold War (reference)

  (more book examples)

Music

• Across Uneven Terrain (reference)

  (more classical music examples; more popular music examples)

Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits.

Seen is melanoma with a border that is uneven, ragged, or notched. Part of the ABCDs for detection of melanoma. See artwork: WYNTK-15b. Credit: Unknown photographer/artist.

Entamoeba histolytica trophozoite showing atypical nucleus with uneven peripheral chromatin. Parasite, ameba. Credit: CDC.

South Pole Station on a day without a horizon, near "white out" conditions. Flags mark path. One would literally feel like walking in a bowl of milk. There was no surface definition and one had to walk with bent knees because impossible to determine if surface was uneven. Credit: Paths Less Taken - NOAA at the Ends of the Earth.

Ship's officers on the deck of a Passaic class monitor, circa 1864-65. This ship has been identified in one published source as USS Sangamon and in another as USS Patapsco. Other photographs (see Photo # 111-B-80 and Photo # 111-B-1961) strongly indicate that it is the former. Note anchor chain on deck, ventilators erected over deck fittings, thin white band painted around the turret top, uneven height of the turret gunports, and Dahlgren howitzer on a field carriage. Credit: NAVY.

All sittin' there in the front pew, all in one long uneven row. Credit: Library of Congress.

An uneven contest. Credit: Library of Congress.

Source: pictures compiled by the editor from various references; see picture credits.

Casy found a stick on the ground and held down the tongue with it, and the uneven breath rattled in and out.

Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Health

The chewing surfaces of back teeth are rough and uneven because they have small pits and grooves. (references)

Blood flow and air flow to the walls of the alveoli where gas exchange takes place are uneven or mismatched. (references)

The gum becomes uneven, and dentures may not fit well. People with diabetes often have sore gums from dentures. (references)

Business

The legal treatment of women's rights is uneven. (references)

The quality of instruction, however, remains uneven. (references)

The geographic distribution of ATMs is uneven in China. (references)

Children

Bulgaria

NGO monitors further allege that even food budgets are highly deficient, with many institutions dependent on the uneven flow of private donations to feed their charges. (references)

South Africa

Each of the nine provincial departments of education has responsibility for the schools in their provinces, which has resulted in the uneven distribution of educational facilities. (references)

Ireland

The 1991 Building Regulations Act established minimum criteria to ensure access for persons with disabilities to all public and private buildings constructed or significantly altered after 1992; however, enforcement is uneven. (references)

Civil Liberties

Cyprus

In the north, cooperation between the Turkish Cypriot authorities and the UNHCR has been uneven. (references)

Mongolia

Due to transportation difficulties, uneven postal service, and fluctuations in the amount of newsprint available, access to a full range of publications is restricted in outlying regions. (references)

Discrimination

Vietnam

The Constitution prohibits discrimination based on gender, ethnicity, religion, or social class; however, enforcement of these prohibitions was uneven. (references)

Economic History

Tanzania

Population distribution in Tanzania is extremely uneven. (references)

South Africa

Diamond sector policy has been somewhat uneven in recent years. (references)

Ukraine

Ukraine's protection of intellectual property rights remains uneven. (references)

Human Rights

Honduras

While the Government respects constitutional provisions in principle, implementation has been weak and uneven in practice. (references)

Turkey

Private attorneys and human rights monitors reported uneven implementation of these regulations, particularly attorney access. (references)

Bulgaria

Human rights observers reported uneven levels of cooperation from various national and local government officials during the year. (references)

Political Economy

Sri Lanka

As previously noted, implementation of the policy is uneven. (references)

Ethiopia

The federal Government's ability to protect constitutional rights at the local level is limited and uneven. (references)

BANGLADESH

However, implementation of new policy directives by the bureaucracy has been slow and uneven among the sectors. (references)

Trade

Kazakhstan

Government observance of standards, testing, labeling, and certification requirements is uneven. (references)

Kazakhstan

While Kazakhstan has sought to bring standards in line with WTO regulations, these reforms are uneven. (references)

Romania

Problems affecting RASDAQ's further development include uneven regulatory policies of CNVM and higher bank interest rates, which have made most individuals prefer bank deposits to portfolio investments. (references)

Women

Bangladesh

Prosecution of rapists is uneven. (references)

Switzerland

More than half of the cantons have an office in charge of promoting equality, but funding and personnel levels remain uneven. (references)

Bosnia and Herzegovina

The integration of women into the police force in uneven but has improved; there is substantial female representation in the Brcko district and in police academy classes in both the RS and the Federation. (references)

Worker Rights

Senegal

However, enforcement is uneven, especially outside the formal sector. (references)

Oman

The implementation of this provision is uneven, and the effectiveness of the committees is questionable. (references)

Mexico

The law protects workers from antiunion discrimination, but enforcement is uneven in the few states with low unionization. (references)

Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

Expressions using "uneven": be uneven ♦ uneven parity ♦ uneven selvedge ♦ uneven temper ♦ uneven trade. Additional references.

Beginning with "uneven": uneven-aged, uneven-ness.

Albanian

tek (at, being an odd number, making up an odd number, odd, off, to, unto, while), jo i rregullt (unregulated), jo i njëllojtë (unequal), i thyer (aged, bent, broken, cloven, decrepit, exhausted, montane, old, rough, rugged, split), i pasheshuar, i pabarabartë (disproportionate, unequal). (various references)

Arabic 

‏متفاوت (different, disparate, dissimilar, irregular, mixed), ‏متقطع (broken, casual, choppy, cut off, disconnected, discontinuous, fitful, fretful, intermission, intermittent, interrupted, irregular, occasional, remittent, spasmodic, sporadic, torn apart), ‏وتري (stringy, tendinous, wiry), ‏غير مستقيم (askew), ‏غير مستو. (various references)

Bulgarian 

тек (odd), грапав (coarse, inelegant, irregular, jagged, ragged, rough, rugged), неравен (bumpy, hilly, iron-bound, irregular, jolty, jumpy, knobby, lumpy, patchy, ragged, rugged, unequal), нечетен (odd, unread), нееднакъв (dissimilar, patchy, unequal), непостоянен (astatic, capricious, casual, changeable, changeful, discontinuous, erratic, fickle, fluctuating, fluid, impermanent, inconstant, irregular, liquid, lubricous, mobile, mutable, non-persistent, seesaw, sporadic, streaky, uncertain, unequable, unreliable, unstable, unsteady, vagarious, variable, variant, volatile, wayward, whimsical, yo-yo). (various references)

Chinese 

陂 (reservoir, rugged), 錯 (blunder, cross, error, fault, mistake, wrong), � � (quite, rather, sloping), 磊 (brick, lumpy, rock pile), 參 (attend, ginseng, irregular, join, not uniform, participate, take part in, to counsel, to join, unequal, varied), 差 (a messenger, a mission, difference, different, discrepancy, error, poor, send, short of, to commission, to differ, to err, to lack, to make a mistake), 坷 (unfortunate), 嵾 (not uniform), 傞 (inversion, mistake, unsteady), 参差不齐 (jaggedness). (various references)

Czech

nevyrovnaný (erratic, unpaid, unsettled), nestejnomìrný, nestejný (unequal), nerovný (broken, inequitable, odd, one sided, ragged, rough, rugged, unequal), nepravidelný (erratic, irregular, ragged, unequal, unsteady), nejistý (afloat, chancy, cloudy, doubtful, dubious, faltering, fluid, halting, insecure, jumpy, precarious, shaky, suspensive, tenuous, uncertain, undecided, uneasy, unsafe, unsettled, unsound, unsure), kostrbatý (crabbed, gritty, sprawling), křivý (crooked, false, wry), hrubý (abusive, blue, boorish, brut, brutish, coarse, coarsened, crass, crude, foul-mouthed, grating, gross, gruff, harsh, howling, knockabout, leathery, low, outrageous, raw, rough, rough and ready, ruddy, rude, rustic, scabrous, sylvan, uncouth, unmannerly, unprintable, vulgar), hrbolatý (bumpy, knobby, nodulated, rough, rugged). (various references)

Danish

urolig koersel (uneven running), uregelmæssigt garn (irregular yarn, uneven yarn), uregelmæssig dosering (faulty flow, unequal dispensing, uneven treatment), ulige antal dommere (uneven number of judges), ujaevnt terraen (uneven terrain), ujaevnt lastet (loaded on an uneven keel), ujaevn koersel (uneven running), uensaldrende (uneven-aged), uegal kant (uneven selvedge), straekning med mange stigninger og fald (line with an uneven profile), elektroden braender skaevt (uneven burning-off of the electrode covering), Domstolens afgoerelser kan kun gyldigt traeffes af et ulige antal dommere (decisions of the Court shall be valid only when an uneven number of its members is sitting in the deliberations). (various references)

Dutch

onregelmatig (abnormal, deviating, divergent, irregular), ongelýkmatig. (various references)

Farsi 

ناهموار (Bumpy, Jagged, Ragged, Rough, Rude, Rugged, Scaly, Unfair), ناصاف (Impure, Lumpy, Ragged, Streaky), ناجور (Away, Cockeyed, Disparate, Dissimilar, Dissonant, Heterogeneous, Inapplicable, Inappropriate, Inconsistent, Incorrect, Inept, Misfit, Piebald, Sorry). (various references)

Finnish

rosoinen (rough, rugged), epätasainen (unequal). (various references)

French

irrégulier (unsteady), inégal (unequable, unequal, unmatched), impair (unpaired). (various references)

German

ungleichmäßig (inconsistently, irregular, irregularly, patchy, unequally, unevenly, unintegrated), uneben (broken, bumpy, irregular, irregularly, jolty, rough), ungrade. (various references)

Greek 

σκολιός (crooked, humped, tortuous), μονός (odd, single), περιττόσ αριθμόσ (prime number), άνισοσ (unequal), ανώμαλοσ (aberrant, abnormal, anomalous, bumpy, irregular, rough, rugged, scraggly, spotty). (various references)

Hebrew 

משת� �" (changeable, changing, differential, mutable, urinal, urinary, variable), מחוספס (coarse, gnarled, hirsute, ragged, rough, rugged, scaled off, tough). (various references)

Hungarian

páratlan (szám), páratlan (equitable, impair, impaired, inimitable, matchless, nonesuch, nonpareil, odd, peerless, singular, superlative, supreme, unexampled, unique, unmatched, unrivalled, unsurpassed), egyenlõtlen (inequable, odd, unequal), egyenlőtlen (disproportioned, to give odds, to take odds, unequal), egyenetlen (bitty, cragged, erratic, irregular, jagged, jerky, jolting, out of level, patchy, ragged, rough, rugged, scored, scraggly, scraggy). (various references)

Indonesian

tak rata (bumpy), geradakan (rough), gasal (odd), ganjil (abnormal, odd, peculiar, queer). (various references)

Italian

ineguale (rough, unequal, unhomogeneous). (various references)

Japanese Kanji 

揃わない (incomplete, odd, unequal). (various references)

Japanese Katakana 

そろわない (incomplete, odd, unequal). (various references)

Korean 

울퉁불퉁한. (various references)

Manx

meechorrym (bumpy, ill-balanced, inequitable, unbalanced). (various references)

Pig Latin

evenunay.(various references)

Portuguese

não plano, irregular (atypical, bumpy, catchy, crenelated, disorderly, erratic, fitful, inequable, informal, inordinate, jaggy, jerky, joggly, jolty, knockabout, lacerated, lawless, occasional, ragged, rough, scratchy, snatchy, spotty, unequable, unequal, wayward), desnivelado, desigual (different, discriminatory, disparate, hackly, incommensurate, inequable, joggly, lacerated, lopsided, one-sided, patchy, ragged, rough, rugged, scratchy, shifting, snatchy, spotty, unequable, unequal), assimétrico (asymmetric, asymmetrical, discriminatory, dissymmetrical, lopsided, one-sided). (various references)

Romanian

zgrunţuros (grained, lumpy), variabil (changeable, choppy, floating, fluctuating, mutable, uncertain, unsettled, unstable, unsteady, variable, variably, variant, varying), nestabil (crank, floating, rocky, unequal, unreliable), neregulat (broken, disorderly, erratic, fitful, irregular, irregularly, odd, patchy, ragged, rugged, scraggy, snatchy, unequal), inegal (erratic, matchlessly, unequable, unequal, unequally), impar (odd), cu asperitãţi (ragged), accidentat (billowy, broken, bumpy, casualty, hilly, injured, odd, rough, rugged, troubled, wounded). (various references)

Russian 

корявый (crooked, rough), неровный (bumpy, joggly, ragged, rough, tuberous, unequal), неравномерный (irregular), нечетный;неровный, нечетный (odd). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian

neujednačen, neravan (bumpy, cloggy, rough, rugged, scabrous). (various references)

Spanish

quebrado (bankrupt, broken, broken through, cracked, fractionally, fractured, heartbroken, insolvent, lost, rough), ondulado (corrugated, ripply, rolling, undulate, undulated, wavy), non (not, odd), lleno de baches (rutty), irregular (aberrant, abnormal, fitful, irregular), impar (odd, unlevel), escabroso (harsh, jolty, naughty, obscene, ribald, risky, rough, rugged, scabrous, tough), desigual (bumpy, coarse, different, inequable, irregular, one sided, rough, unequal), aspero (rough), accidentado (broken, chequered, hilly, jerky, ragged, troubled, up and down). (various references)

Swedish

ojämn (bumpy, fitful, ignorant, inequable, irregular, jagged, jaggy, joggly, odd, patchy, ragged, rough, spotty, streaky, unequal), knagglig (rough). (various references)

Turkish

tek (exclusive, fellow, homeo-, homo-, homoeo-, individual, lone, mono-, odd, one, one and only, only, single, singular, sole, solitary, uni-, unique), pürüzlü (granular, jagged, rough, scabrous, shaggy), inişli çıkışlı (bumpy, chequered, remittent, rugged, seesaw, surging, surgy, undulant, up and down, with ups and downs), engebeli (bumpy, rough, rude, rugged), eğri büğrü (crooked, gnarled, scratchy, screwed, skew, tortuous, twisted), eşitsiz (one sided, unequal), dengesiz (astatic, deranged, immoderate, inequable, lop-sided, Moody, non compos, non compos mentis, off one's rocker, out-of-balance, unbalanced, uncompensated, unstable), düz olmayan, arizali (broken, out of order). (various references)

Turkmen 

ters (cool, false, incorrect). (various references)

Ukrainian

нерівний (anomalous, banky, broken, drunken, humpy, inconstant, inequable, irregular, ragged, rough, rugged, splashy, stair-step, tremulant, tremulous, unequal, unsteady), нерегулярний (casual, irregular, non-recurring, occasional, odd, snatchy, spasmodic), неврівноважений (unbalanced), неоднаковий (matchless, unlike). (various references)

Vietnamese 

không phẳng, g�" ghề (rough, roughly, rugged, unlevelled, unsmooth). (various references)

Welsh

anwastad (fickle, unstable), anghyfartal (unequal). (various references)

skalenos. (various references)

aspera, aspere, asperum, confracta, confractae, confracti, confractis, confracto, confractos, confractum, confractus, crispanti, crispus, iniqua, iniquae, iniquam, iniquas, inique, iniqui, iniquis, iniquissimas, iniquius, iniquo, iniquorum, iniquos, iniquum, iniquus, sentis. (various references)

Derivations

Words beginning with "uneven": unevener, unevenest, unevenly, unevenness, unevennesses, uneventful, uneventfully, uneventfulness, uneventfulnesses. (additional references)

Misspellings

"Uneven" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: Cuneen, dunneven, neven, nuvan, Nuvin, Onuven, Unavem, uniden, unleven, unvent, unvex, unvon. (additional references)

Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits.

Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams

-1 letter: venue.

-2 letters: even, nene, neve.

-3 letters: eve, nee, nun, vee.

-4 letters: en, ne, nu, un.

+1 letter: unnerve.

+2 letters: unenvied, unevener, unevenly, unnerved, unnerves, unveined.

+3 letters: unavenged, unevenest, unreeving.

+4 letters: aventurine, mavourneen, turnverein, unenviable, unevenness, uneventful, unleavened, unleveling.

+5 letters: aventurines, enviousness, eventuating, juvenescent, maneuvering, mavourneens, nervousness, supervening, turnvereins, unbelieving, unconverted, undeceiving, undeserving, uninventive, unlevelling.