Word.ws English Dictionary

unevenly

/ʌnˈivənli/

unevenly adverb: in an uneven or haphazard manner.

Adverb

unevenly (comparative more unevenly, superlative most unevenly)

  1. In an uneven or haphazard manner.
    • Network Rail said this has been due to the driest ever spring and summer, which caused clay embankments to shrink unevenly in a process called soil moisture deficit.2025 November 12, “West of England services respite”, in RAIL, number 1048, page 17
  2. In an unequal manner.
    • Put easily, instamining is a method that enables coins to be issued unfairly or unevenly.2019 September 23, Prasanna Peshkar, “Instamine vs Premine”, in Cryptoticker
    Synonyms:
    unequally

unevenly meaning in Urdu

unevenly in Urdu

غیرمساوی طور پر, غیریکساں طور پر

Examples of unevenly in a sentence

  • Remember to turn the rotors when replacing the brake shoes, or they will wear out unevenly.
  • The child's breath came quickly and unevenly.
  • The cloth rolls unevenly; the snow rolls well.

All 15 example sentences with unevenly

Synonyms of unevenly

Antonyms

Forms of unevenly

comparativemore unevenly
superlativemost unevenly

Origin of unevenly

From uneven + -ly or un- + evenly.

Questions about unevenly

What does unevenly mean?
Unevenly means in an uneven or haphazard manner.
What is unevenly in Urdu?
Unevenly in Urdu is غیرمساوی طور پر, غیریکساں طور پر. See Unevenly meaning in Urdu.
What part of speech is unevenly?
Unevenly is an adverb.
How do you pronounce unevenly?
Unevenly is pronounced /ʌnˈivənli/.

Words near unevenly in the dictionary

  1. unevener
  2. uneveness
  3. unevenest
  4. unevenhandedness
  5. unevening
  6. unevenly
  7. unevenness
  8. unevennesses
  9. unevens
  10. unevent
  11. uneventful

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: unevenly (page history and authors); unevenly (Urdu Wiktionary) (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.

Last updated:

Pronunciation audio from Wikimedia Commons, each file under its own free license: LL-Q1860 (eng)-AnotherFriendlyHuman-unevenly.wav.

Cite this entry: “unevenly.” Word.ws, https://word.ws/unevenly. Based on Wiktionary, CC BY-SA 4.0.