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unlevel

unlevel adjective: not level.

Adjective

unlevel (comparative more unlevel, superlative most unlevel)

  1. Not level.
    • It creates an unlevel playing field because some companies are taking unfair advantage.”2007 June 9, Steven Greenhouse, “Investigating Mislabeling of Workers”, in New York Times

Verb

unlevel (third-person singular simple present unlevels, present participle (US) unleveling or (UK) unlevelling, simple past and past participle (US) unleveled or (UK) unlevelled)

  1. (transitive) To make no longer level; to apply a bias to.

Forms of unlevel

Adjective
comparativemore unlevel
superlativemost unlevel
Verb
third-person singular presentunlevels
present participle USunleveling
present participle UKunlevelling
past participle USunleveled
past USunleveled
past participle UKunlevelled
past UKunlevelled

Origin of unlevel

From un- + level.

Words formed from unlevel

Questions about unlevel

What does unlevel mean?
Unlevel means not level.
What part of speech is unlevel?
Unlevel can be an adjective or a verb.

Words near unlevel in the dictionary

  1. unletted
  2. unlettered
  3. unletteredness
  4. unlettering
  5. unletterlike
  6. unlevel
  7. unleveled
  8. unleveling
  9. unlevelized
  10. unlevelled
  11. unlevelling

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