unequal

unequal
    adj 1: poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or
           measure [ant: {equal}]
    2: lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task;
       "inadequate training"; "the staff was inadequate"; "she was
       unequal to the task" [syn: {inadequate}, {unequal}] [ant:
       {adequate}, {equal}]
    

Unequal \Un*e"qual\, a. [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.
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   2. Ill balanced or matched; disproportioned; hence, not
      equitable; partial; unjust; unfair.
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            Against unequal arms to fight in pain. --Milton.
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            Jerome, a very unequal relator of the opinion of his
            adversaries.                          --John
                                                  Worthington.
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            To punish me for what you make me do
            Seems much unequal.                   --Shak.
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   3. Not uniform; not equable; irregular; uneven; as, unequal
      pulsations; an unequal poem.
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   4. Not adequate or sufficient; inferior; as, the man was
      unequal to the emergency; the timber was unequal to the
      sudden strain.
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   5. (Bot.) Not having the two sides or the parts symmetrical.
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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