From Middle English unfair, from Old English unfæġer, equivalent to un- + fair.

• (RP) IPA: /ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/, [ɐnˈfɛə(ɹ)], /ʌnˈfɛː(ɹ)/, [ɐnˈfɛː(ɹ)]
• (America) IPA: /ʌnˈfɛɚ/

unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative unfairest)

1. not fair, unjust

   Antonyms: fair, just

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

2. (rare or archaic) not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
3. (archaic or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
4. (archaic) unseemly; disgraceful

• French: injuste, déloyal
• German: unfair, ungerecht
• Italian: scorretto, sleale, ingiusto
• Portuguese: injusto
• Russian: несправедли́вый
• Spanish: injusto

unfair (unfairs, present participle unfairing; simple past and past participle unfaired)

1. (transitive, obsolete) to make ugly

   Synonyms: devenustate

   • 1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC ↗:

     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.