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uneven

/ən'ivən/

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adjective
lacking consistency
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scratchy spotty inconsistent
adjective
(of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents
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"vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church"

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mismatched unequal
adjective
not divisible by two
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odd
adjective
not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture
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"an uneven color" "uneven ground" "uneven margins" "wood with an uneven grain"

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jagged jaggy lumpy out of true patchy pebble-grained ragged rippled scraggy unparallel wavy-grained crinkled crinkly cross-grained curly-grained irregular wavelike wavy untrue

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even
adjective
variable and recurring at irregular intervals
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"an uneven gait" "uneven spacing"

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unsteady

Examples of uneven

"vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church"
"an uneven color"
"uneven ground"
"uneven margins"
"wood with an uneven grain"
"an uneven gait"
"uneven spacing"