| 单词 | uneven |
| 释义 | uneven (once / 1235 pages) 1adj 2adj 3adj Uneven is the opposite of uniform and predictable. If the road is uneven, it's bumpy and rough, and you’ll have to dodge the potholes. If your performance as Hamlet is uneven, your "To be or not to be" might be brilliant, but you mumble through "Get thee to a nunnery!" If the economic recovery is uneven, it's not the same in every sector — maybe manufacturing and exports are picking up steam but the housing market is still lagging. If your soccer team of skinny 12-year-olds is up against a team of beefy 16-year-old giants, it's an uneven match and likely to be ugly. WORD FAMILYuneven: unevenly, unevenness+/even: evened, evener, evenest, eveningly, evenly, evenness, evens, uneven/unevenness: unevennesses USAGE EXAMPLESAn uneven 109-98 victory over the lowly Suns in Staples Center would hardly classify as a “fix.” Los Angeles Times(Jan 02, 2017) So, why does this fightin’ team produce such uneven results until it’s in a desperate situation? Washington Post(Dec 30, 2016) It is always uneven, discontinuous, reversible, contradictory, producing winners and losers, no force of nature but manmade.” The Guardian(Dec 29, 2016) 1 adj (of a contest or contestants) not fairly matched as opponents 2vaudeville...waged an uneven battle against the church Syn mismatched unequal poorly balanced or matched in quantity or value or measure 1adj lacking consistency Syn scratchy, spotty inconsistent displaying a lack of consistency 2adj not even or uniform as e.g. in shape or texture an uneven color uneven ground uneven margins wood with an uneven grain Syn|Ant crinkled, crinkly, rippled, wavelike, wavy uneven by virtue of having wrinkles or waves cross-grained, curly-grained, wavy-grainedof timber; having fibers running irregularly rather than in parallel irregular(of a surface or shape); not level or flat or symmetrical jagged, jaggy, scraggyhaving a sharply uneven surface or outline lumpyhaving lumps; not smooth and even in texture out of true, untruenot accurately fitted; not level patchyirregular or uneven in quality, texture, etc. pebble-grained(of leather) having a rough surface as the result of being treated with a patterned roller raggedhaving an irregular outline unparallelnot straight or parallel rough, unsmoothhaving or caused by an irregular surface unsteadysubject to change or variation even being level or straight or regular and without variation as e.g. in shape or texture; or being in the same plane or at the same height as something else (i.e. even with) flat, level, planehaving a surface without slope, tilt in which no part is higher or lower than another flatbottom, flatbottomedhaving a flat bottom flushof a surface exactly even with an adjoining one, forming the same plane justifiedhaving words so spaced that lines have straight even margins lap-jointedjointed so as to produce a flush surface straight-grainedof timber; having fibers that run in parallel leveloriented at right angles to the plumb straight, trueaccurately fitted; level smoothhaving a surface free from roughness or bumps or ridges or irregularities steadynot subject to change or variation especially in behavior 3adj variable and recurring at irregular intervals 3an uneven gait uneven spacing Syn unsteady subject to change or variation adj not divisible by two Syn|Ant odd even divisible by two |
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