uneven
adjEtymology
From Middle English uneven, from Old English unefen (“unequal, unlike, dissimilar, diverse, irregular”), equivalent to un- + even. Cognate with Dutch oneven (“unequal, uneven, odd”), German uneben (“uneven, rough, irregular, bumpy”).
- inherited from uneven
Definitions
Of a surface, not even
Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.
Not level or smooth.
Not uniform.
- I've spent hours on overcrowded trains, and time on ones which were almost empty, because the recovery [from COVID] has been uneven.
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Varying in quality.
- Even white activists who lacked a thoroughgoing anti-racist consciousness or were uneven in their understanding saw unity in the struggle against all forms of oppression as key.
Odd.
To make uneven.
- Initially it nestled among the dozens of Indian mounds that unevened the earth near the river until they were leveled to accommodate commerce.
- First, of course, the war reduced the white male, mostly young adult, population by more than a quarter-million, unevening the sex ratio and connubial and other opportunities for women for perhaps a generation.
The neighborhood
Derived
Vish — recursive loop
A definitional loop anchored at uneven. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.
A definitional loop anchored at uneven. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.
7 hops · closes at uneven
curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.
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