unfair
English
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Etymology
From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“not fair, not beautiful, foul, ugly, horrid”), equivalent to un- + fair.
Pronunciation
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Audio (US): (file) - Rhymes: -ɛə(r)
Adjective
unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative unfairest)
- (rare or archaic) not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
- (archaic or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
- (archaic) unseemly; disgraceful
- not fair, unjust
- 2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, page 162:
- He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
Translations
not fair
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See also
Verb
unfair (third-person singular simple present unfairs, present participle unfairing, simple past and past participle unfaired)
- (transitive, obsolete) to make ugly
- (Can we date this quote?), William Shakespeare, sonnet V
- 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.
- Synonym: devenustate
- (Can we date this quote?), William Shakespeare, sonnet V
Anagrams
German
Etymology
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ˈʊnfɛːɐ̯/ (standard; used naturally in western Germany and Switzerland)
- IPA(key): /ˈʊnfeːɐ̯/ (overall more common; particularly northern and eastern regions)
Audio: (file) - Hyphenation: un‧fair
Adjective
unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative am unfairsten)
Declension
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