coequal

[ koh-ee-kwuhl ]

adjective

1. equal with another or each other in rank, ability, extent, etc.:

   The two top students were coequal.

noun

1. a coequal person or thing.

coequal

/ ˌkəʊɪˈkwɒlɪtɪ; kəʊˈiːkwəl /

adjective

1. of the same size, rank, etc

noun

1. a person or thing equal with another

Derived Forms

• coequality, noun
• coˈequally, adverb

Other Words From

• co·e·qual·i·ty [koh-i-, kwol, -i-tee], co·equal·ness noun
• co·equal·ly adverb

Word History and Origins

Origin of coequal¹

1350–1400; Middle English. See co-, equal

Example Sentences

The Constitution clearly describes three coequal branches of government, not an executive branch and two lesser ones.

From The Daily Beast

Shuffles could count thirteen including his rival, while Pelham could number nineteen without his coequal in authority.

From Project Gutenberg

The several States of the Union are by force of the Constitution coequal in domestic legislative power.

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Add to this, that they might have arisen even in a state of nature, and have been coequal with the quarrels of mankind.

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In his view "the evil of two coequal Houses of distinct natures is obvious."

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The most trifling sin (if any sin can be called trifling,) demanded nothing less than God's eternal and coequal Son.

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