unequal
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3.0
- adjective
- /ʌnˈiːkwəl/
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desigual
- The results demonstrated the unequal and potentially detrimental learning influence of group work among lower-performing students.
- unequal distribution
- unequal access
- unequal power
It's a justification for unequal development across the world.
- It's a justification for unequal development across the world.
- It does seem that every culture has a unequal valuation of human life.
- We are by far the most unequal major nation in the world, OK.
- So not a tech problem, a problem of unequal power.
- But wealth is actually built through unequal exchange.
- It turns out that both places and times that are more economically unequal tend to be less trusting.
- And it really has to do with the intersection of rationalization and unequal power.
- It's this this increasingly unequal distribution of privilege and wealth and all that goes with it.
- It simply says that suburbs are unequal, something that one would presume to know.
- And in more unequal societies, that competition for status is more important.
- And therefore they want state to intervene and redistribute what is in fact going to be an unequal outcome.
- We live in this unequal world where.
- But we see it's true that, like people who live in more unequal societies are less happy.
Examples
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Peru is vulnerable to these climate changes primarily because of the unequal distribution of resources, money, people, and water.
Academic text (2012) -
In the contest, the two teams were unequal in skill, with one dominating the other.
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Otherwise the world would be much, much more unequal than it is now.
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We are by far the most unequal major nation in the world, OK.
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If you allow markets to run, it's still going to become unequal over time, right?
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This is a case of unequal treatment.
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So, it's a deeply unequal society.
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Since the 1980s, the United States has become a more unequal society, and it's economic dominance has declined.
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Despite its rich resources, Honduras is today the third-poorest and second-most unequal country in Latin America.
Academic text (2011) -
The model held that these disparities could synergistically lead to unequal levels of morbidity and mortality.
Academic text (2011)
Synonyms
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3.8
Different in appearance or nature
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2.7
Not equal in strength, with one side clearly stronger
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9.9
Not the same in size or importance as something else
Not the same in value, amount, or importance
Not the same in value, meaning, or result
Not the same in value, use, or meaning
A contest where one side is much stronger or more skilled than the other
Different from another person or thing in important ways
Antonyms
Idioms
How Equal
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Morphology
Etymology
Unequal comes from un- 'not' and equal 'the same' or 'even'. So unequal means 'not the same' or 'not balanced', for example when one person gets more than another.