uneven

1. 1

   Of a surface, not even; covered with raised spots, pits and grooves.

2. 2

   Not level or smooth.

3. 3

   Not uniform.

   • I've spent hours on overcrowded trains, and time on ones which were almost empty, because the recovery [from COVID] has been uneven.
4. 4

   Varying in quality.

   • Even white activists who lacked a thoroughgoing anti-racist consciousness or were uneven in their understanding saw unity in the struggle against all forms of oppression as key.
5. 5

   Odd.rare

syn. rough

1. 1

   To make uneven.transitive

   • Initially it nestled among the dozens of Indian mounds that unevened the earth near the river until they were leveled to accommodate commerce.
   • 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.