Read full poem →general, not particular Laws, v.37. As it is necessary for Order, and
the peace and welfare of Society, that external goods should be unequal,
Happiness is not made to consist in these, v.51. But, notwithstanding
Dictionary Entry
Not equal in size, amount, degree, or value.
In a Sentence
“The pay gap between the two jobs was unequal, with one earning significantly more than the other.”
Origin
Late Middle English: from Old French inegal, from Latin inaequalis, from in- ‘not’ + aequalis ‘equal’.
Common Phrases
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Poetry examples for “unequal”
Excerpts from the ReadingWillow English Library collection.
Read full poem →With more than usual lightning in her eyes:
Nor fear'd the chief th' unequal fight to try,
Who sought no more than on his foe to die.
Read full poem →been left bv Betterton and bis party, after struggling
with unequal force against the excellent performers who
bated under the banner of that respectable veteran, be-
Read full poem →"Why tread'st me down? art thou aye gravely play'd?
Thou deign'st unequal lines should thee rehearse;
Thou fight'st against me using mine own verse.
Read full poem →64. The third hour unequal: In the third planetary hour;
Palamon had gone forth in the hour of Venus, two hours before
Read full poem →Had formed the whole, and made the parts agree,
That no unequal portions might be found,
He moulded earth into a spacious round;
Read full poem →And he who most performed, and promised less,
Even Short[51] himself, forsook the unequal strife.
Death and despair was in their looks,
Read full poem →The Tuscan father’s comedy divine ;
Then, not unequal to the Florentine,
The Southern Scott, the minstrel who called forth
Read full poem →When far away upon a barbarous strand,
In fight unequal, by an obscure hand,
Fell the last scion of thy brood of Kings!
Read full poem →And o’er the moorlands whistles shill:
Wi’ wild, unequal, wand’ring step,
I meet him on the dewy hill.