What does unfair mean?

Definitions for unfair
ʌnˈfɛərun·fair

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Princeton's WordNet

  1. unfair, unjustadjective

    not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception

    "used unfair methods"; "it was an unfair trial"; "took an unfair advantage"

Wiktionary

  1. unfairadjective

    Not fair, unjust.

    It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.

Samuel Johnson's Dictionary

  1. Unfairadjective

    Disingenuous; subdolous; not honest.

    You come, like an unfair merchant, to charge me with being in your debt. Jonathan Swift.

ChatGPT

  1. unfair

    Unfair refers to something that is not based on truth, justice, or equality. It often implies inequality, bias, discriminatory practices, or unjust actions or decisions that favor one party over another. It is a lack of equal or impartial treatment or consideration.

Webster Dictionary

  1. Unfairverb

    to deprive of fairness or beauty

  2. Unfairadjective

    not fair; not honest; not impartial; disingenuous; using or involving trick or artifice; dishonest; unjust; unequal

Wikidata

  1. Unfair

    Unfair is an action Japanese television drama with 11 episodes and one TV special, aired in Japan in 2006 on Fuji-TV, and followed by a movie Unfair: The Movie in 2007 with the same cast.

Chambers 20th Century Dictionary

  1. Unfair

    un-fār′, adj. not fair: dishonest: unequal.—v.t. (Shak.) to deprive of beauty.—adv. Unfair′ly.—n. Unfair′ness, the state of being unfair, dishonest, or unjust.

British National Corpus

  1. Spoken Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'unfair' in Spoken Corpus Frequency: #4768

  2. Written Corpus Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'unfair' in Written Corpus Frequency: #3672

  3. Adjectives Frequency

    Rank popularity for the word 'unfair' in Adjectives Frequency: #620

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Numerology

  1. Chaldean Numerology

    The numerical value of unfair in Chaldean Numerology is: 5

  2. Pythagorean Numerology

    The numerical value of unfair in Pythagorean Numerology is: 6

Examples of unfair in a Sentence

  1. Illinois Sen. Dick Durbin:

    The Republican Majority Leader announced over the weekend that he was going to hold this nomination of Loretta Lynch until the bill, which is pending before the Senate passes, whenever that may be, and so Loretta Lynch, the first African-American woman nominated to be attorney general, is asked to sit in the back of the bus when it comes to the Senate calendar. That is unfair. It's unjust. It is beneath the decorum and dignity of the United States Senate. This woman deserves fairness.

  2. Kim Kardashian:

    My heart breaks for my mom because I feel like she's been through so much, [Caitlyn's] promoting this book and she's saying all these things and, you know, I just don't think it's necessary. I just feel like it's unfair and things aren't truthful.

  3. Donald Trump:

    I have to look at the group. I mean, I don't know what group you're talking about, you wouldn't want me to condemn a group that I know nothing about. I'd have to look. If you would send me a list of the groups, I will do research on them and certainly I would disavow if I thought there was something wrong. You may have groups in there that are totally fine -- it would be very unfair. So give me a list of the groups and I'll let you know.

  4. Naveen Jindal:

    Unfair to even suggest that the bids were low, infact the bids were substantially above the base prices set by the government.

  5. Janet Yellen:

    Treasury is working tirelessly to address efforts by foreign economies to artificially manipulate their currency values that put American workers at an unfair disadvantage.

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