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Definition of even
- make even or more even
- become even or more even; "even out the surface"
- make level or straight; "level the ground"
- equal in degree or extent or amount; or equally matched or balanced; "even amounts of butter and sugar"; "on even terms"; "it was a fifty-fifty (or even) split"; "had a fifty-fifty (or even) chance"; "an even fight"
- of the score in a contest; "the score is tied"
- 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); "an even application of varnish"; "an even floor"; "the road was not very even"; "th
- divisible by two
- occurring at fixed intervals; "a regular beat"; "the even rhythm of his breathing"
- symmetrically arranged; "even features"; "regular features"; "a regular polygon"
- used as an intensive especially to indicate something unexpected; "even an idiot knows that"; "declined even to consider the idea"; "I don''t have even a dollar!"
- to a greater degree or extent; used with comparisons; "looked sick and felt even worse"; "an even (or still) more interesting problem"; "still another problem must be solved"; "a yet sadder tale"
- in spite of; notwithstanding; "even when he is sick, he works"; "even with his head start she caught up with him"
- to the full extent; "loyal even unto death"
See Also: compensate, counterbalance, correct, even out, even off, even up, smooth, steady
Hyponyms: grade, strickle, strike
Attributes: evenness, invariability
Derivational Morphology: level, spirit level, leveler, leveller
Anagrams: Venn
| Language Translations: | |||
| Afrikaans: selfs and vlak | Dutch: even, paar and vlak and zelfs | ||
| Esperanto: eĉ | Finnish: jopa and parillinen and tasainen | ||
| French: même and pair | Galician: aínda | ||
| German: eben and gerade | Hebrew: אפילו and זוגי | ||
| Hungarian: még | Italian: anche and pari | ||
| Japanese: 偶数 and 平 | Latin: etiam | ||
| Lithuanian: ir | Polish: nawet and parzysty and równy | ||
| Portuguese: par and plano | Russian: даже and ровный and чётный | ||
| Slovene: sod | Slovenian: celo | ||
| Spanish: incluso and par and parejo | Swedish: även and jämn | ||
| Telugu: చదునైన and సరి | |||
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