1 not level, smooth or flat:
an uneven path / wall * The floor felt uneven under his feet.
OPPEVEN
2 not following a regular pattern; not having a regular size and shape
SYNIRREGULAR:
Her breathing was quick and uneven. * uneven teeth
OPPEVEN
3 not having the same quality in all parts:
an uneven performance (= with some good parts and some bad parts)
4 (of a contest or match) in which one group, team or player is much better than the other
SYNUNEQUAL
OPPEVEN
5 organized in a way that is not regular and/or fair
SYNUNEQUAL:
an uneven distribution of resources
OPPEVEN
unevenly adverb:
His hair was cut unevenly. * The teams are unevenly matched. * The population is unevenly distributed.
unevenness noun [U]
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This is a English–English dictionary entry.
Sourced from Main Dictionary in Lughet's collection.
This word also appears under other sources in Lughet's collection — see the list below.
This entry for uneven is sourced from Main Dictionary, one of the dictionaries and corpora merged into Lughet.
Is uneven a noun, verb, or something else?
In this entry, uneven is tagged as adjective.
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