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Wordnet 3.0
ADJECTIVE (2)
1. showing lack of favoritism;
- Example: "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"
2. free from undue bias or preconceived opinions;
- Example: "an unprejudiced appraisal of the pros and cons"
- Example: "the impartial eye of a scientist"
[syn: unprejudiced, impartial]
The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:
Impartial \Im*par"tial\, a. [Pref. im- not + partial: cf. F. impartial.] Not partial; not favoring one more than another; treating all alike; unprejudiced; unbiased; disinterested; equitable; fair; just. --Shak. [1913 Webster] Jove is impartial, and to both the same. --Dryden. [1913 Webster] A comprehensive and impartial view. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]The Devil's Dictionary (1881-1906):
IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions.Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0:
44 Moby Thesaurus words for "impartial": Laodicean, Olympian, apathetic, candid, centrist, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, equal, equitable, even, evenhanded, fair, fifty-fifty, half-and-half, impersonal, independent, indifferent, just, lofty, midway, moderate, neuter, neutral, nonaligned, noncommitted, nonpartisan, objective, on the fence, passive, selfless, third-force, third-world, unbiased, uncolored, uncommitted, undazzled, uninfluenced, uninvolved, unjaundiced, unprejudiced, unprepossessed, unselfish, unswayed
