UNEQUAL TO

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unequal to mean? 

• UNEQUAL TO (adjective)
  The adjective UNEQUAL TO has 1 sense:

1. not meeting requirements

  Familiarity information: UNEQUAL TO used as an adjective is very rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNEQUAL TO (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not meeting requirements

Synonyms:

incapable; incompetent; unequal to

Context example:

unequal to the demands put upon him

Similar:

inadequate; unequal (lacking the requisite qualities or resources to meet a task)

 Context examples 

As usual, believing yourself unequal to anything! fancying everything too much for you!

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

For the world would she not have her weakness suspected, and yet, unequal to an absolute falsehood, was constrained to acknowledge that the wind had kept her awake a little.

(Northanger Abbey, by Jane Austen)

Am I unequal to speaking his name at once before all these people?

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Thanks to it, I was able to meet subsequent occurrences with a decent calm, which, had they found me unprepared, I should probably have been unequal to maintain, even externally.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

She was earnestly begged to return and dine, and give them all the rest of the day, but her spirits had been so long exerted that at present she felt unequal to more, and fit only for home, where she might be sure of being as silent as she chose.

(Persuasion, by Jane Austen)

She knew not the exact degree of his affection for his aunt, or his dependence on her judgment, but it was natural to suppose that he thought much higher of her ladyship than she could do; and it was certain that, in enumerating the miseries of a marriage with one, whose immediate connections were so unequal to his own, his aunt would address him on his weakest side.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

There were many things to be brought up from the beach and stored in the outhouse—as oars, nets, sails, cordage, spars, lobster-pots, bags of ballast, and the like; and though there was abundance of assistance rendered, there being not a pair of working hands on all that shore but would have laboured hard for Mr. Peggotty, and been well paid in being asked to do it, yet she persisted, all day long, in toiling under weights that she was quite unequal to, and fagging to and fro on all sorts of unnecessary errands.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

Say that, on examining the part, you feel yourself unequal to it; that you find it requiring more exertion and confidence than you can be supposed to have.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

The answer was only in this short note: Miss Fairfax's compliments and thanks, but is quite unequal to any exercise.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)

Fanny's heart beat quick, and she felt quite unequal to surmising or soliciting anything more.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)