one-sided
one-sided adjective: partial or biased in favour of one faction or demographic group.
Adjective
one-sided (comparative more one-sided, superlative most one-sided)
- Partial or biased in favour of one faction or demographic group.
- We were robbed! That referee was definitely one-sided.
- With one competitor dominant over the other.
- It was a swift, one-sided fight, all over in the second round.
- Lovenkrands only just failed to connect with another Enrique cross in what was becoming a one-sided affair at Ewood Park but despite Newcastle dominating, Blackburn held out with the half ending goalless.2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC
- Out of proportion or lopsided.
- Having only one side, like a Möbius strip.
- Turned to one side.
- That is necessarily or absolutely different than the respective coordinate alethic or temporal modality, but not its opposite.
one-sided meaning in Hindi, Tamil, Malayalam and Kannada
one-sided in Hindi
- one-sided
- इकतरफ़ा iktarfā
one-sided in Tamil
- partial or biased in favour of one faction
- ஒருதலை orutalai
one-sided in Malayalam
- ഒരേഭാഗത്തുളള, ഏകദേശീയമായ, പക്ഷപാതപരമായ
one-sided in Kannada
- ಏಕಪಕ್ಷೀಯ, ಪಕ್ಷಪಾತದ, ಒಂದುಕಡೆ ಓಲುವ, ಅನ್ಯಾಯವಾದ, ಪೂರ್ವಗ್ರಹ ಪೀಡಿತ, ಒಂದೇ ಪಕ್ಕದ
Forms of one-sided
| comparative | more one-sided |
|---|---|
| superlative | most one-sided |
Words formed from one-sided
Questions about one-sided
- What does one-sided mean?
- One-sided means partial or biased in favour of one faction or demographic group.
- What is one-sided in Hindi?
- One-sided in Hindi is इकतरफ़ा (iktarfā). See One-sided meaning in Hindi.
- What part of speech is one-sided?
- One-sided is an adjective.
Words near one-sided in the dictionary
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Adapted from Wiktionary: one-sided (page history and authors); इकतरफ़ा (Hindi) (page history and authors); one-sided (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); one-sided (Kannada Wiktionary) (page history and authors). 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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