impartial
[im-pahr-shuhl]
adjective
not partial or biased; fair; just: an impartial judge.
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disinterested, evenhanded, fair-minded, open-minded, dispassionate, unbiased, neutral, candid, objective, equitable, detached, nonpartisan, equal, impersonal, just, middle-of-the-road, nondiscriminating, nondiscriminatory, unbigoted, unslanted
Nearby words
- imparity,
- impark,
- imparl,
- imparlance,
- impart,
- impartiality,
- impartible,
- impassable,
- impasse,
- impassible
Origin of impartial
SYNONYMS FOR impartial
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impartial
formed in English 1590s from assimilated form of in- (1) "not, opposite of" + partial. First recorded in "Richard II."
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