fair
公平,公正,公平的,公正的
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Definitions
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fair·er, fair·est.
- : free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice: a fair decision;a fair judge.
- : legitimately sought, pursued, done, given, etc.; proper under the rules: a fair fight.
- : moderately large; ample: a fair income.
- : of a light hue; not dark: fair skin.
- : pleasing in appearance; attractive: a fair young maiden.
- : neither excellent nor poor; moderately or tolerably good: fair health.
- : marked by favoring conditions; promising: I can now assure my two little daughters of a fair future.The chief medical officer pronounced him in a fair way to recovery.
- : Meteorology. bright; sunny; cloudless to half-cloudy. fine; with no prospect of rain, snow, or hail; not stormy.
- : unobstructed; not blocked up: The way was fair for our advance.
- : without irregularity or unevenness: a fair surface.
- : free from blemish, imperfection, or anything that impairs the appearance, quality, or character: Her fair reputation was ruined by gossip.
- : easy to read; clear: fair handwriting.
- : seemingly good or sincere but not really so: The suitor beguiled his mistress with fair speeches.
- : courteous; civil: fair words.
- : Nautical. tending to aid the progress of a vessel.
- : Medicine/Medical. having stable and normal vital signs and other favorable indicators, as appetite and mobility, but being in some discomfort and having the possibility of a worsening state.
- : Dialect. scarcely; barely: It was just fair daylight when we started working.
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fair·er, fair·est.
- : in a fair manner: He doesn't play fair.
- : straight; directly, as in aiming or hitting: He threw the ball fair to the goal.
- : favorably; auspiciously.
- : British, Australian. entirely; completely; quite: It happened so quickly that it fair took my breath away.
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- : Archaic. something that is fair.
- : Archaic. a woman.a beloved woman.
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- : to make the connection or junction of smooth and even.
- : Shipbuilding. to draw and adjust to produce regular surfaces of the correct form.to adjust the form of in accordance with a design, or cause it to conform to the general form of a hull.to restore to its original form.to align in proper position.
- : to bring into perfect alignment.
- : Obsolete. to make fair.
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- : fair off / up South Midland and Southern U.S. to clear: It's supposed to fair off toward evening.
Phrases
- fair and square
- fair enough
- fair game
- fair play
- fair sex
- fair shake, a
- fair to middling
- fairy godmother
- all's fair in love and war
- play fair
- turnabout is fair play
Synonyms & Antonyms
Examples
As a principal, I have the responsibility to ensure compliance and create a fair and balanced environment for all students.
If the shifts among women and older voters seen in the Post-ABC poll reflect an actual shift in the electorate — a fair assumption based on a wide range of other state and national polls — that seems very difficult to do.
He says she urged street fairs and parades, but that’s not true.
Grant says BrightHire, co-founded by Ben Sesser and Teddy Chestnut, is “the most compelling platform I’ve seen to help companies run fair and inclusive hiring processes.”
We believe we are fair and reasonable partners and have no incentive to enforce the restrictions more broadly than necessary.
Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.
Vicky Ward was a contributing editor to Vanity Fair for 11 years.
Frustrating as regulars find these fair-weather exercise interlopers, they were also all beginners once, he says.
Perhaps it always seems that way at the time, but surely we face our fair share right now.
To be fair, no artist had ever been asked to, or could have pulled it off if they had.
Finally, let me ask the general reader to put aside all prejudice, and give both sides a fair hearing.
Grandmamma sits in her quaint arm-chair— Never was lady more sweet and fair!
He was tall and of familiar figure, and the firelight was playing in the tossed curls of his short, fair hair.
Mary is fair as the morning dew— Cheeks of roses and ribbons of blue!
May looked along at the dimpled grace, And then at the saint-like, fair old face, “How funny!”