different between biased vs unfair

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.

Translations

Verb

biased

1. simple past tense and past participle of bias

Anagrams

• abides, debias

English

Etymology

From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæ?er (“ugly”), equivalent to un- +? fair.

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /?n?f??(?)/, [?n?f??(?)], /?n?f??(?)/, [?n?f??(?)]
• (General American) IPA^(key): /?n?f??/

• Rhymes: -??(r)

Adjective

unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative unfairest)

1. (rare or archaic) not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
2. (archaic or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
3. (archaic) unseemly; disgraceful
4. not fair, unjust

   Antonyms: fair, just

Translations

See also

Verb

unfair (third-person singular simple present unfairs, present participle unfairing, simple past and past participle unfaired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to make ugly

   Synonym: devenustate

Anagrams

• Funari

German

Etymology

From un- +? fair.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /??n?f??r/, [???n-], [????-], [-?f????], [-?fe???], [-?f???]
• Hyphenation: un?fair

Adjective

unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative am unfairsten)

1. unfair

   Synonyms: unlauter, ungerecht

   Antonym: fair

Declension

Further reading

• “unfair” in Duden online
• “unfair” in Digitales Wörterbuch der deutschen Sprache