inegalitarian
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9.3
- adjective
- /ˌɪnɪˈɡælɪˌtɛriən/
:
inegalitario
- The education system in many countries can be highly inegalitarian, favoring students from wealthy backgrounds over those from poorer families.
- inegalitarian social structures
- inegalitarian social class
- highly inegalitarian
Examples
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But this same culture becomes radically inegalitarian if only a relatively few have the chance to prosper financially.
Academic text (2009) -
One characteristic of Third World countries that constitutes perhaps the greatest obstacle to their overall development is their highly inegalitarian social class structures.
Academic text (1993) -
Science, in contrast, is inegalitarian in this sense.
Academic text (1990) -
Was the kingdom highly centralized and inegalitarian, as most accounts suggest?
Academic text (1997) -
These measures, however, could not overtake the inegalitarian trends inherent in the market model.
Academic text (1999) -
Indeed, major countries such as Brazil and Mexico were more inegalitarian in social and economic terms after fifty years of massive state intervention than they were before the restrictive policies were put in place.
Academic text (1992) -
The word "capitalism," however, is deemed too revealing of their inegalitarian agenda and is replaced by the emancipatory sounding "free enterprise."
Academic text (2010) -
Love of liberty here has a foundation that is clearly and emphatically inegalitarian and thus antidemocratic; the exaltation of "great hearts" and the disdain for "mediocre souls" certainly do not belong to the "instincts" of democracy.
Academic text (1998) -
To a large extent, this policy was formulated to break with the Ottoman past that had provided a framework, albeit hierarchical and inegalitarian, for the coexistence of a vast range of religious and ethnic groups in a region spanning the Near East and the Balkans.
Academic text (2000) -
Under the influence primarily of Rousseau, and thus given their view of European social and political life as inegalitarian, corrupt, and oppressive, the belief that European institutions, mores, practices, or religious beliefs should serve as the benchmark against which other peoples ought to be judged itself seemed a delusion.
Academic text (1999)
Synonyms
4
8.0
Not fair when people or groups do not get the same treatment
Antonyms
How Egalitarian
Surface Forms
Morphology
inegalitarian = egalitarian (transparent) = in + egalitarian
The prefix 'in-' straightforwardly negates 'egalitarian', so the adjective means 'not egalitarian' or favoring inequality.
Etymology
Inegalitarian comes from the prefix in- meaning 'not' added to egalitarian, which comes from equal meaning 'the same'. So an inegalitarian policy or system is 'not equal' and favours unfair differences between people.