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uneven
English
Etymology
From Middle English uneven, from Old English unefen (“unequal, unlike, dissimilar, diverse, irregular”), equivalent to un- +? even. Cognate with Dutch oneven (“unequal, uneven, odd”), German uneben (“uneven, rough, irregular, bumpy”).
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /?n?iv?n/
- Rhymes: -i?v?n
Adjective
uneven (comparative more uneven, superlative most uneven)
- Not even
- Not level or smooth
- Not uniform
- Varying in quality
- (mathematics, rare) Odd
- Antonym: even
Synonyms
- rough
Derived terms
- unevenly
- unevenness
Translations
See also
- irregular
- unequal
Verb
uneven (third-person singular simple present unevens, present participle unevening, simple past and past participle unevened)
- (transitive) To make uneven.
- 1993, Travel Holiday (volume 176, page 56)
- Initially it nestled among the dozens of Indian mounds that unevened the earth near the river until they were leveled to accommodate commerce.
- 2006, Jack Temple Kirby, Mockingbird Song: Ecological Landscapes of the South (page 128)
- First, of course, the war reduced the white male, mostly young adult, population by more than a quarter-million, unevening the sex ratio and connubial and other opportunities for women for perhaps a generation.
- 1993, Travel Holiday (volume 176, page 56)
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inclement
English
Etymology
From Latin incl?m?ns (“unmerciful, severe”), from in- (“not”) + cl?m?ns (“mild, placid”).
Pronunciation
- (UK, US) IPA(key): /?n?kl?m.?nt/, /??n.kl?m.?nt/
Adjective
inclement (comparative more inclement, superlative most inclement)
- Stormy, of rough weather
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III, verse 425
- Starless exposed, and ever-threatening storms / Of Chaos blustering round, inclement sky; / Save on that side which from the wall of Heaven, / Though distant far, some small reflection gains / Of glimmering air less vexed with tempest loud.
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book X, verse 1060
- How much more, if we pray him, will his ear / Be open, and his heart to pitie incline, / And teach us further by what means to shun / Th’ inclement Seasons, Rain, Ice, Hail and Snow, / Which now the Skie with various Face begins.
- The first man I saw was of a meagre aspect, with sooty hands and face, his hair and beard long, ragged, and singed in several places. His clothes, shirt, and skin, were all of the same colour. He has been eight years upon a project for extracting sunbeams out of cucumbers, which were to be put in phials hermetically sealed, and let out to warm the air in raw inclement summers.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 35
- Concerning all this, it is much to be deplored that the mast-heads of a southern whale ship are unprovided with those enviable little tents or pulpits, called crow’s-nests, in which the look-outs of a Greenland whaler are protected from the inclement weather of the frozen seas.
- 1859, Charles Dickens, A Tale of Two Cities, third book, fifth chapter
- From that time, in all weathers, she waited there two hours. As the clock struck two, she was there, and at four she turned resignedly away. When it was not too wet or inclement for her child to be with her, they went together; at other times she was alone; but, she never missed a single day.
- 1901 to 1902, Sir Arthur Ignatius Conan Doyle, The Hound of the Baskervilles, chapter 3
- The man was elderly and infirm. We can understand his taking an evening stroll, but the ground was damp and the night inclement. Is it natural that he should stand for five or ten minutes, as Dr. Mortimer, with more practical sense than I should have given him credit for, deduced from the cigar ash?
- 1667, John Milton, Paradise Lost, Book III, verse 425
- (obsolete) Merciless, unrelenting.
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 34
- He lived in the world, as the last of the Grisly Bears lived in settled Missouri. And as when Spring and Summer had departed, that wild Logan of the woods, burying himself in the hollow of a tree, lived out the winter there, sucking his own paws; so, in his inclement, howling old age, Ahab’s soul, shut up in the caved trunk of his body, there fed upon the sullen paws of its gloom!
- 1851, Herman Melville, Moby-Dick, chapter 34
- (archaic) Unmercifully severe in temper or action.
Antonyms
- clement
Related terms
- inclemency
- inclemently
Derived terms
Translations
Romanian
Etymology
From French inclément
Adjective
inclement m or n (feminine singular inclement?, masculine plural inclemen?i, feminine and neuter plural inclemente)
- merciless
Declension
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