impartial
Americanadjective
adjective
Related Words
See fair 1.
Other Word Forms
- impartiality noun
- impartially adverb
- impartialness noun
- pseudoimpartial adjective
- quasi-impartial adjective
- unimpartial adjective
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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What’s more coldly impartial, however, is the economic research.
From The Wall Street Journal • Mar. 27, 2026
At the time of the January 30 ruling in its favour, China had hailed it as "objective and impartial".
From Barron's • Feb. 24, 2026
Most telling of all: Those chafed by “Promising Young Woman” haven’t given Fennell the impartial second chance that her male industry colleagues receive time and time again.
From Salon • Feb. 23, 2026
"Justice and accountability requires a thorough and impartial investigation to establish the facts. A truly joint state and federal investigation would be a welcome development," Pretti's family said in a statement.
From BBC • Feb. 16, 2026
But after the retreat, when someone else, someone impartial and from the East Coast, deemed me Juilliard worthy, the idea burrowed into Gran’s brain.
From "If I Stay" by Gayle Forman
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