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UNEQUALLY
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Dictionary entry overview: What does unequally mean?
• UNEQUALLY (adverb)
The adverb UNEQUALLY has 1 sense:
1. in an unequal or partial manner
Familiarity information: UNEQUALLY used as an adverb is very rare.
Dictionary entry details
Sense 1
Meaning:
In an unequal or partial manner
Synonyms:
unequally; unevenly
Context example:
angry at being dealt with so unequally
Antonym:
equally (in equal amounts or shares; in a balanced or impartial way)
Pertainym:
unequal (poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure)
Context examples
My two natures had memory in common, but all other faculties were most unequally shared between them.
(The Strange Case Of Dr. Jekyll And Mr. Hyde, by Robert Louis Stevenson)
Tolerance to various effects develops unequally, so that tachycardia and enhanced alertness diminish while psychotoxic effects (hallucinations and delusions) may occur.
(Dextroamphetamine-amphetamine, NCI Thesaurus)
Such a circumstance could only exasperate farther, and, when he ceased, the colour rose into her cheeks, and she said: In such cases as this, it is, I believe, the established mode to express a sense of obligation for the sentiments avowed, however unequally they may be returned.
(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)
I am still a little afraid of missing something if I forget that, as my father snobbishly suggested, and I snobbishly repeat, a sense of the fundamental decencies is parcelled out unequally at birth.
(The Great Gatsby, by F. Scott Fitzgerald)
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