word | impartial |
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definition | Fair and not biased; treating or affecting all equally. |
eg_sentence | Representatives of labor and management agreed to have the matter decided by an impartial third party. |
explanation | To be “partial to” or “partial toward” someone or something is to be somewhat biased or prejudiced, which means that a person who is partial really only sees part of the whole picture. To be impartial is the opposite. The United Nations sends impartial observers to monitor elections in troubled countries. We hope judges and juries will be impartial when they hand down verdicts. But grandparents aren't expected to be impartial when describing their new grandchild |
IPA | ˌɪmˈpɑrʃəl |
Tags: mwvb::unit:9, mwvb::unit:9:word, mwvb::word, mwvb::word-cloze, mwvb::word-reverse, obsidian_to_anki
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