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fair-minded

Syllables: fair-mind·ed/ˌfɛːˈmaɪndɪd/US/ˌfɛ(ə)ɹˈmaɪndɪd/

fair-minded adjective: impartial and unbiased.

Adjective

fair-minded (comparative more fair-minded, superlative most fair-minded)

  1. Impartial and unbiased.
    • "You pretend to be a fair-minded man." / "How absurd. How could a man of my position be fair-minded toward you? You might as well speak of a Spaniard being fair-minded toward a piece of steak."1922 June, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, in Tales of the Jazz Age, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published September 1922, →OCLC, part VI, page 167
    • I am not a fair-minded woman. It is simply that I dislike being indebted to a—to a pig.1943, Walter R[ollin] Brooks, Freddy and the Bean Home News, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC

fair-minded meaning in Malayalam and Vietnamese

fair-minded in Malayalam

just, fair, even-handed
നിഷ്പക്ഷമതിയായ, നീതിനിഷ്ഠയുള്ള, നീതിപൂർവ്വമായ, ധാർമ്മികത്വമുള്ള, പക്ഷപാതമില്ലാത്ത, നിഷ്പക്ഷപാത

fair-minded in Vietnamese

impartial and unbiased — see also impartial, unbiased
công bằng, vô tư

Synonyms of fair-minded

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Forms of fair-minded

comparativemore fair-minded
superlativemost fair-minded
alternative formfairminded

Origin of fair-minded

From fair (“equitable, just”) + minded (“having a mind (inclination) for something or a certain way of thinking about things”).

Words formed from fair-minded

Questions about fair-minded

What does fair-minded mean?
Fair-minded means impartial and unbiased.
What is fair-minded in Malayalam?
Fair-minded in Malayalam is നിഷ്പക്ഷമതിയായ, നീതിനിഷ്ഠയുള്ള, നീതിപൂർവ്വമായ. See Fair-minded meaning in Malayalam.
What part of speech is fair-minded?
Fair-minded is an adjective.
How do you pronounce fair-minded?
Fair-minded is pronounced /ˌfɛːˈmaɪndɪd/ (UK).

Words near fair-minded in the dictionary

  1. fair-handedly
  2. fair-handedness
  3. fair-headed
  4. fair-maid-of-France
  5. fair-mannered
  6. fair-minded
  7. fair-mindedly
  8. fair-mindedness
  9. fair-sized
  10. fair-skinned
  11. fair-spoken

Source and license

Adapted from Wiktionary: fair-minded (page history and authors); fair-minded (Olam, E.K. Kurup corpus) (dataset and license). Text available under the Creative Commons Attribution-ShareAlike 4.0 license. Word.ws reformatted the entry and added links. Wiktionary data of 2026-09-02.

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