biased
adjective /ˈbaɪ.əst/Definition
C1 showing an unreasonable like or dislike for a person based on personal opinions: The newspapers gave a very biased report of the meeting. I think she's beautiful but then I'm biased since she's my daughter. → Opposite unbiasedUnfairness and favouring someone unfairlyJustice and fairness
(Definition of biased adjective from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
© Cambridge University Press)
Browse related topics
You are looking at an entry to do with Unfairness and favouring someone unfairly, but you might be interested in these topics from the Right and wrong topic area:
- Accurate and exact
- Approximate
- Balance and imbalance
- Being suitable or unsuitable
- Correcting and mending
- Faults and mistakes
- Inconvenience
- Justice and fairness
- Making mistakes
- Matching and co-ordinating
- Perfect and faultless
- Proving and disproving
- Reality and truth
- Suitable and acceptable
- True, real, false, and unreal
- Unreal things and unreality
- Unspoilt
- Unsuitable and unacceptable
- Wanting everything to be right
- Wrong
Browse the Dictionary
Browse the Thesaurus
More Results for “biased”
SMART Thesaurus
Synonyms and related words:
- arbitrary adjective (UNFAIR)
- be a bit much idiom
- bias noun (PREFERENCE)
- blue-eyed boy noun
- chauvinism noun
- favouritism noun
- ghettoize verb
- inequitable adjective
- injustice noun
- nepotism noun
- sexism noun
- sexist adjective
- shortchange verb
- slant verb
- stigmatize verb
- uneven adjective (NOT EVEN)
- unfair adjective
- unjust adjective
- unprovoked adjective
- you're having a laugh idiom
Word of the Day
Blog
Read our blog about how the English language behaves.
New Words
Find words and meanings that have just started to be used in English, and let us know what you think of them.
