"unfair" meaning in English

See unfair in All languages combined, or Wiktionary

Adjective

IPA: /ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], [ɐnˈfɛə(ɹ)] [Received-Pronunciation], /ʌnˈfɛː(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], [ɐnˈfɛː(ɹ)] [Received-Pronunciation], /ʌnˈfɛɚ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-unfair.ogg [US] Forms: unfairer [comparative], unfairest [superlative]
Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|unfair||unattractive, unseemly}} Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), {{inh|en|ang|unfæġer||ugly}} Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), {{af|en|un-|fair}} un- + fair Head templates: {{en-adj|er}} unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative unfairest)
  1. not fair, unjust Translations (not fair): անարդար (anardar) (Armenian), несправядлі́вы (njespravjadlívy) (Belarusian), несправедли́в (nespravedlív) (Bulgarian), injust (Catalan), 不公平 (bùgōngpíng) (Chinese Mandarin), nespravedlivý (Czech), uretfærdig (Danish), ufin (Danish), maljusta (Esperanto), epäreilu (Finnish), injuste (French), déloyal (French), unfair (German), ungerecht (German), méltánytalan (Hungarian), igazságtalan (Hungarian), ósanngjarn [masculine] (Icelandic), scorretto [masculine] (Italian), sleale (Italian), ingiusto (Italian), 不公平 (fukōhei) (alt: ふこうへい) (Japanese), មិនយុត្តិធម៌ (mɨn-yuttethɔə) (Khmer), 불공평하다 (bulgongpyeonghada) (Korean), inīquus (Latin), onfair (Luxembourgish), нечесен (nečesen) (Macedonian), makihuhunu (Maori), urettferdig (Norwegian Bokmål), urettferdig (Norwegian Nynorsk), unrihtwīs (Old English), nieuczciwy (Polish), niesprawiedliwy (Polish), injusto (Portuguese), несправедли́вый (nespravedlívyj) (Russian), неправичан [Cyrillic] (Serbo-Croatian), nepravičan [Roman] (Serbo-Croatian), nespravodlivý (Slovak), injusto (Spanish), orättvis (Swedish), несправедли́вий (nespravedlývyj) (Ukrainian), bất công (Vietnamese)
    Sense id: en-unfair-en-adj-k5e9BvST Categories (other): English entries with incorrect language header Disambiguation of English entries with incorrect language header: 61 3 22 1 12 Disambiguation of 'not fair': 72 26 0 2
  2. (rare or archaic) not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive Tags: archaic, rare
    Sense id: en-unfair-en-adj-~xt4SOMA
  3. (archaic or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
    Sense id: en-unfair-en-adj-p3NxJDw~
  4. (archaic) unseemly; disgraceful Tags: archaic
    Sense id: en-unfair-en-adj-HvK2QkAr
The following are not (yet) sense-disambiguated
Derived forms: unfair competition, unfair list

Verb

IPA: /ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], [ɐnˈfɛə(ɹ)] [Received-Pronunciation], /ʌnˈfɛː(ɹ)/ [Received-Pronunciation], [ɐnˈfɛː(ɹ)] [Received-Pronunciation], /ʌnˈfɛɚ/ [General-American] Audio: en-us-unfair.ogg [US] Forms: unfairs [present, singular, third-person], unfairing [participle, present], unfaired [participle, past], unfaired [past]
Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ) Etymology: From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair. Etymology templates: {{inh|en|enm|unfair||unattractive, unseemly}} Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), {{inh|en|ang|unfæġer||ugly}} Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), {{af|en|un-|fair}} un- + fair Head templates: {{en-verb}} unfair (third-person singular simple present unfairs, present participle unfairing, simple past and past participle unfaired)
  1. (transitive, obsolete) to make ugly Tags: obsolete, transitive Synonyms: devenustate
    Sense id: en-unfair-en-verb-pGVl-PMc Categories (other): English terms prefixed with un- Disambiguation of English terms prefixed with un-: 27 11 23 4 36

Inflected forms

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          "text": "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.",
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          "text": "Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would \"punish Londoners\" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: \"These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability.\"",
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          "text": "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.",
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      "code": "fr",
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      "sense": "not fair",
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      "code": "it",
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      "code": "it",
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      "sense": "not fair",
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      "alt": "ふこうへい",
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      "sense": "not fair",
      "word": "មិនយុត្តិធម៌"
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      "roman": "bulgongpyeonghada",
      "sense": "not fair",
      "word": "불공평하다"
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      "code": "la",
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      "word": "inīquus"
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      "code": "lb",
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      "code": "ang",
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      "sense": "not fair",
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      "sense": "not fair",
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      "code": "vi",
      "lang": "Vietnamese",
      "sense": "not fair",
      "word": "bất công"
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