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Definition: Unevenly |
UnevenlyAdverb1. In an uneven and irregular way. 2. In a ragged uneven manner; "I took the cigarette he offered, drawing at it raggedly". 3. In an unequal or partial manner; "profits were distributed unevenly"; "angry at being dealt with so unequally". Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "unevenly" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1841. (references) |
Synonyms: UnevenlySynonyms: raggedly (adv), unequally (adv). (additional references) |
| Antonym: evenly (adv). (additional references) |
Crosswords: Unevenly |
| English words defined with "unevenly": chatter ♦ Wabble. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "unevenly": BLANKET-CUTTING-MACHINE OPERATOR, BRICK UNLOADER TENDER ♦ myrickite ♦ PASTING-MACHINE OFFBEARER ♦ TEXTURING-MACHINE FIXER. (references) |
| Title | Author | Quote |
Grapes of Wrath | Steinbeck, John | The rasping breath came louder and more unevenly. |
Source: compiled by the editor from various references. | ||
| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Civil Liberties | Pakistan | Government officials claimed that the ban was enacted as a safety measure for the visit of an official head of state; however, the ban remained in place at year's end, although the Government stated in August that it would lift the ban 90 days before national elections which are to take place no later than October 12, 2002. During the year, the ban was enforced unevenly. (references) |
Economic History | Paraguay | Paraguay's population is distributed unevenly throughout the country. (references) |
Laos | Laos' population was estimated at about 5.6 million in 2001, dispersed unevenly across the country. (references) | |
Human Rights | Vietnam | These provisions are enforced unevenly. (references) |
Political Economy | Sudan | However, in practice these legal protections are applied unevenly. (references) |
Haiti | Since 1986 Haiti has moved unevenly along a path of constitutional rule. (references) | |
Women | Eritrea | The law provides a framework for improving the status of women, but laws are implemented unevenly, because of a lack of capacity in the legal system and ingrained cultural attitudes. (references) |
Worker Rights | United Arab Emirates | However, the rule is enforced unevenly. (references) |
Grenada | The Government sets health and safety standards, but the authorities enforce them unevenly. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Unevenly" is generally used as an adverb (general) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Unevenly" is used about 117 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted) |
| Parts of Speech | Percent | Usage per 100 Million Words | Rank in English |
| Adverb (general) | 100% | 117 | 29,823 |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
| Language | Translations for "unevenly"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Chinese | 参差不齐地. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Danish | uensartet sprøjtning (dissimilar distributed cover, dissimilar distributed spray, unevenly distributed spray), heterogen sprøjtning (dissimilar distributed cover, dissimilar distributed spray, unevenly distributed spray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Dutch | heterogeen spuitpatroon (dissimilar distributed cover, dissimilar distributed spray, unevenly distributed spray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
French | pulvérisation hétérogène (unevenly distributed spray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
German | ungleichmäßig (inconsistently, irregular, irregularly, patchy, unequally, uneven, unintegrated), unebene. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Greek | ανισώσ, ανωμαλώσ (anomalously). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Hungarian | egyenetlenül (jerkily). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Italian | polverizzazione eterogenea (dissimilar distributed cover, dissimilar distributed spray, unevenly distributed spray). (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Korean | 울퉁불퉁하게. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
Pig Latin | evenlyunay pulverização heterogénea (dissimilar distributed cover, dissimilar distributed spray, unevenly distributed spray). (various references) pulverización heterogénea (dissimilar distributed cover, dissimilar distributed spray, unevenly distributed spray). (various references) ojämt. (various references) | ||||||||||||||||||||||
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "unevenly" (pronounced unē"vunlē) |
| 6 | -ē" v u n l ē | evenly. |
| 5 | -v u n l ē | heavenly, slovenly. |
| 4 | -u n l ē | brazenly, certainly, clandestinely, commonly, gentlemanly, genuinely, humanly, matronly, mistakenly, openly, suddenly, uncertainly, uncommonly, wantonly. |
| 3 | -n l ē | benignly, cleanly, divinely, finely, greenly, humanely, keenly, lonely, mainly, manly, obscenely, only, plainly, sternly, stubbornly, thinly, ungainly, vainly. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
| Words within the letters "e-e-l-n-n-u-v-y" | |
-2 letters: ennuye, evenly, uneven, venule. | |
-3 letters: venue. | |
-4 letters: eely, envy, even, eyen, eyne, levy, lune, luny, nene, neve, yule. | |
-5 letters: eel, eve, eye, lee, leu, lev, ley, luv, lye, nee, nun, vee, yen. | |
| Words containing the letters "e-e-l-n-n-u-v-y" | |
+4 letters: uneventfully. | |
+5 letters: unbelievingly. | |
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Hexadecimal (or equivalents, 770AD-1900s) (references)55 6E 65 76 65 6E 6C 79 |
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Morse Code (1836) (references)..- -. . ...- . -. .-.. -.--. |
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Binary Code (1918-1938, probably earlier) (references)01010101 01101110 01100101 01110110 01100101 01101110 01101100 01111001 |
HTML Code (1990) (references)U n e v e n l y |
ISO 10646 (1991-1993) (references)0055 006E 0065 0076 0065 006E 006C 0079 |
| British Sign Language (Fingerspelling, BSL; 1992, British Deaf Association Dictionary of British Sign Language) (references)
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Encryption (beginner's substitution cypher): (references)5580718871807891 |
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