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# unequally

«unequally» in Mova's school dictionary: **Not in equal amounts or shares; some parts are bigger…** — its meaning for a pupil, its sense in the lessons and examples.

### part of speech

adverb

### meaning for a pupil

Not in equal amounts or shares; some parts are bigger than others. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unequally/#m1)

### sense in the lessons

in a sharing problem, the parts are not the same size, though the whole stays the same

### examples

- The sweets were shared unequally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unequally/#x1)
- Ten sweets split unequally: seven for one child, three for another. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unequally/#x2)
- The work was divided unequally. [tree →](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unequally/#x3)

### note

Unequal shares do not give equal groups, so the total stays the same but each part differs.

### Trees and pragmatics

[Every meaning and example of «unequally» parsed by Mova](https://md.mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/U/unequally/), each sentence with its dependency tree and frames.