- 1[usually before noun] in which people are treated in different ways or have different advantages in a way that seems unfair synonym unfair an unequal distribution of wealth an unequal contest
- 2unequal (in something) different in size, amount, etc. The sleeves are unequal in length. The rooms upstairs are of unequal size.
- 3unequal to something (formal) not capable of doing something She felt unequal to the task she had set herself. opposite equal
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