unfair
Pronunciation Adjective
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Pronunciation Adjective
unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative unfairest)
- (rare or archaic) not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
- (archaic or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
- (archaic) unseemly; disgraceful
- not fair, unjust
- It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.
- Antonyms: fair, just
- French: injuste, déloyal
- German: unfair, ungerecht
- Italian: scorretto, sleale
- Portuguese: injusto
- Russian: несправедли́вый
- Spanish: injusto
unfair (unfairs, present participle unfairing; past and past participle unfaired)
- (transitive, obsolete) to make ugly
- 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. Neuer before Imprinted, London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, OCLC 216596634 ↗:
- Those hours that with gentle work did frame / The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell / Will play the tyrants to the very same / And that unfair which fairly doth excel.
- Synonyms: devenustate
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