different between biased vs imperious

English

Alternative forms

• biassed (British)

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /?ba??st/
• Rhymes: -a??st

Adjective

biased (comparative more biased, superlative most biased)

1. Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

   Synonyms: partial, prejudiced, tendentious

2. Angled at a slant.

3. (electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is applied.
4. (statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.

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Verb

biased

1. simple past tense and past participle of bias

Anagrams

• abides, debias

English

Etymology

From Latin imperi?sus (“mighty, powerful”), from imperium (“command, authority, power”)

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?m?p???i.?s/
• (US) IPA^(key): /?m?p??i.?s/
• Rhymes: -??ri?s

Adjective

imperious (not comparable)

1. Domineering, arrogant, or overbearing.
   • 1866 – Fyodor Dostoyevsky, The Gambler, translated by C. J. Hogarth

     ...she glanced about her in an imperious, challenging sort of way, with looks and gestures that clearly were unstudied.

2. Urgent.
   • 1891 – Ambrose Bierce, An Occurrence at Owl Creek Bridge

     Circumstances of an imperious nature, which it is unnecessary to relate here, had prevented him from taking service with that gallant army which had fought the disastrous campaigns ending with the fall of Corinth.

3. (obsolete) Imperial or regal.
   • 1899 – Stephen Crane, The Angel Child, Whilomville Stories

     She was quick, beautiful, imperious, while he was quiet, slow, and misty.

Synonyms

• (domineering): authoritarian, bossy, dictatorial, domineering, overbearing

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