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unæqual

unæqual is the obsolete spelling of unequal.

Meaning of unequal

Adjective

unequal (comparative more unequal, superlative most unequal)

  1. Not the same.
  2. Out of balance.
  3. (comparable) Inadequate; insufficiently capable or qualified.
    • unequal to the task
  4. Erratic, inconsistent.
    • Her manner to Francesca was very unequal. Sometimes it had all the frankness of their early intimacy; at other times it was forbidding, and even petulant.1834, L[etitia] E[lizabeth] L[andon], chapter I, in Francesca Carrara. […], volume II, London: Richard Bentley, […], (successor to Henry Colburn), →OCLC, page 1

See all 5 meanings of unequal

Forms of unæqual

comparativemore unæqual
superlativemost unæqual

Origin of unæqual

From un- + æqual.

Questions about unæqual

What is unæqual the obsolete spelling of?
Unæqual is the obsolete spelling of unequal.

Words near unæqual in the dictionary

  1. unzoomed
  2. unzooming
  3. unzooms
  4. Unzueta
  5. Unzuetas
  6. unæqual
  7. unæquall
  8. unæquivocal
  9. unæsthetic
  10. Unțeni
  11. UO

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Adapted from Wiktionary: unæqual (page history and authors); unequal (page history and authors). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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