uneven

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: un=e=ven

CIDE DICTIONARY

uneven, a. [AS. unefen. See Un- not, and Even, a.].

•  Not even; not level; not uniform; rough; as, an uneven road or way; uneven ground.  [1913 Webster]
•  Not equal; not of equal length.  [1913 Webster]

  "Hebrew verse consists of uneven feet."  [1913 Webster]
•  Not divisible by two without a remainder; odd; -- said of numbers; as, 3, 7, and 11 are uneven numbers.  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

uneven, adj.
1 not level or smooth.
2 not uniform or equable.
3 (of a contest) unequal.

Derivative

unevenly adv. unevenness n.

Etymology

OE unefen (as UN-(1), EVEN(1))

THESAURUS

uneven

adulterated, asperous, asymmetric, blemished, broken, bumpy, capricious, careening, catchy, changeable, changing, choppy, coarse, coarse-grained, corrugated, craggy, cross-grained, damaged, defective, deficient, desultory, deviating, deviative, deviatory, different, differing, disconnected, discontinuous, discrepant, disorderly, disparate, disproportionate, divaricate, divergent, diversified, diversiform, eccentric, erose, erratic, erroneous, fallible, faulty, fitful, flickering, fluctuating, found wanting, grainy, granulated, guttering, halting, harsh, herky-jerky, heteroclite, homespun, horripilant, ill-matched, ill-sorted, illegal, immature, immethodical, impaired, imperfect, imprecise, impulsive, impure, inaccurate, inadequate, incomplete, inconsistent, inconstant, inequal, inequitable, inexact, iniquitous, insufficient, intermittent, intermitting, irregular, jagged, jerky, jolty, lacking, linsey-woolsey, lurching, makeshift, mediocre, mercurial, mismatched, mixed, motley, mutable, nonconformist, nonstandard, nonsymmetrical, nonuniform, not perfect, odd, off, off-balance, out of proportion, overbalanced, partial, patchy, pimply, pitted, pluralistic, pocky, potholed, ragged, rambling, rank, ripply, rough, rough-cast, rough-grained, rough-hewn, ruffled, rugged, rutted, rutty, scabrous, scraggy, scrappy, shagged, shaggy, short, sketchy, skew, skewed, snatchy, spasmatic, spasmic, spasmodic, spastic, sporadic, spotty, staggering, textured, unbalanced, uncertain, undeserved, undeveloped, undue, unequable, unequal, unequitable, unfinished, unjust, unkempt, unlawful, unlevel, unmeet, unmerited, unmethodical, unmetrical, unorthodox, unperfected, unpolished, unrefined, unregular, unrhythmical, unrightful, unsettled, unsmooth, unsound, unstable, unsteady, unsymmetrical, unsystematic, unthorough, ununiform, variable, variegated, variform, various, varying, veering, wandering, wanting, wavering, wimpled, wobbling, wobbly, wrong, wrongful

ROGET THESAURUS

uneven

Nonuniformity

N nonuniformity, diversity, irregularity, unevenness, multiformity, unconformity, roughness, dissimilarity, dissimilitude, divarication, divergence, diversified varied, irregular, uneven, rough, multifarious, multiform, of various kinds, all manner of, all sorts of, all kinds of, variously, in all manner of ways, here there and everywhere.

Inequality

N inequality, disparity, imparity, odds, difference, unevenness, inclination of the balance, partiality, bias, weight, shortcoming, casting weight, make-weight, superiority, inferiority, inequation, unequal, uneven, disparate, partial, unbalanced, overbalanced, top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed, disquiparant, haud passibus aequis.

Roughness

N roughness, tooth, grain, texture, ripple, asperity, rugosity, salebrosity, corrugation, nodosity, arborescence, pilosity, brush, hair, beard, shag, mane, whisker, moustache, imperial, tress, lock, curl, ringlet, fimbriae, pili, cilia, villi, lovelock, beaucatcher, curl paper, goatee, papillote, scalp lock, plumage, plumosity, plume, panache, crest, feather, tuft, fringe, toupee, wool, velvet, plush, nap, pile, floss, fur, down, byssus, moss, bur, fluff, knot (convolution), rough, uneven, scabrous, scaly, knotted, rugged, rugose, rugous, knurly, asperous, crisp, salebrous, gnarled, unpolished, unsmooth, roughhewn, craggy, cragged, crankling, scraggy, prickly, arborescent, leafy, well-wooded, feathery, plumose, plumigerous, laciniate, laciniform, laciniose, pappose, pileous, pilose, trichogenous, trichoid, tufted, fimbriated, hairy, ciliated, filamentous, hirsute, crinose, crinite, bushy, hispid, villous, pappous, bearded, pilous, shaggy, shagged, fringed, befringed, setous, setose, setaceous, like quills upon the fretful porcupine, rough as a nutmeg grater, rough as a bear, downy, velvety, flocculent, woolly, lanate, lanated, lanuginous, lanuginose, tomentose, fluffy, against the grain, cabello luengo y corto el seso.