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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)

  1. Partial or biased in favour of one faction or demographic group.
    • We were robbed! That referee was definitely one-sided.
  2. 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
  3. Out of proportion or lopsided.
  4. Having only one side, like a Möbius strip.
  5. Turned to one side.
  6. 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

comparativemore one-sided
superlativemost 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

  1. one-shot
  2. one-shot learning
  3. one-shots
  4. one-shotted
  5. one-shotting
  6. one-sided
  7. one-sidedly
  8. one-sidedness
  9. one-sidely
  10. one-sixth
  11. one-size diaper

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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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