English adjective: uneven | |||
1. | uneven not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture | ||
Samples | An uneven color. Uneven ground. Uneven margins. Wood with an uneven grain. | ||
Similar | crinkled, crinkly, cross-grained, curly-grained, irregular, jagged, jaggy, lumpy, out of true, patchy, pebble-grained, ragged, rippled, scraggy, unparallel, untrue, wavelike, wavy, wavy-grained | ||
See also | rough, unsmooth, unsteady | ||
Attribute | evenness, invariability | ||
Antonyms | even | ||
2. | uneven (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents | ||
Samples | Vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church. | ||
Synonyms | mismatched | ||
Similar | unequal | ||
Antonyms | equal | ||
3. | uneven not divisible by two | ||
Synonyms | odd | ||
Antonyms | even | ||
4. | uneven variable and recurring at irregular intervals | ||
Samples | An uneven gait. Uneven spacing. | ||
Similar | unsteady | ||
Antonyms | steady | ||
5. | uneven lacking consistency | ||
Samples | The golfer hit the ball well but his putting was spotty. | ||
Synonyms | scratchy, spotty | ||
Similar | inconsistent | ||
Antonyms | consistent | ||