equal

Meanings

Adjective

• The same in all respects.
• Exactly identical, having the same value.
• Fair, impartial.
• Adequate; sufficiently capable or qualified.
• Not variable; equable; uniform; even.
• Intended for voices of one kind only, either all male or all female; not mixed.

Verb

• To be equal to, to have the same value as; to correspond to.
• To make equivalent to; to cause to match.
• To have as its consequence.

Noun

• A person or thing of equal status to others.
• State of being equal; equality.

Related

Similar words

• identical
• equivalent
• even, fair, uniform, unvarying
• be, is
• entail, imply, lead to, mean, result in, spell
• peer

Origin

• Borrowed from Latin aequālis, of unknown origin. egal.