impartial
Americanadjective
adjective
Related Words
See fair 1.
Other Word Forms
Etymology
Origin of impartial
Explanation
If you're in a contest, you'd better hope the judges are impartial. That means that they aren't biased toward one competitor over another. If you’re partial to the color green, you love green and wear it all the time. If you’re impartial to colors, you don’t care what color you wear. To be impartial is to be objective, so you don’t mind one way or another how something is going to turn out. It’s important for jurors to be impartial when reaching a verdict, rather than allowing biases and preconceptions affect their judgment.
Vocabulary lists containing impartial
The Bill of Rights
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Example Sentences
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Impartial justice under such a system is doubtful.
From The Wall Street Journal • Jan. 9, 2026
Impartial election observers said they had not seen “significant irregularities” or any evidence of misdoing.
From New York Times • Dec. 20, 2022
“We’ve always assumed there would be opposition at some point,” said Mike Swenson, spokesman for Keep Kansas Courts Impartial.
From Seattle Times • Oct. 28, 2022
Other efforts in this space include the International, Impartial and Independent Mechanism for Syria, established in December 2016 following a resolution from the United Nations General Assembly.
From Slate • Feb. 28, 2022
Impartial study of the Iliad leads us to the belief that the Greeks of the historic period interpreted the friendship of Achilles and Patroclus in accordance with subsequently developed customs.
From A Problem in Greek Ethics Being an inquiry into the phenomenon of sexual inversion by Symonds, John Addington
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