unfair
UK/ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)//ʌnˈfɛɚ/
unfair adjective: not just.
Adjective
unfair (comparative unfairer or more unfair, superlative unfairest or most unfair)
- Not just.
- It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.
- 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...2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 21 Jun 2017, page 162
- Synonyms:
- no fair, unjust, inequitable, unequitable
- Not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive.
- Sorrowful; sad.
- Unseemly; disgraceful.
Verb
unfair (third-person singular simple present unfairs, present participle unfairing, simple past and past participle unfaired)
- to make ugly
- 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.1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets. […], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC
unfair meaning in Tamil, Marathi, Urdu and Bengali
unfair in Tamil
- அநியாயமான, நியாயமற்ற, செவ்வையற்ற, நேர்மையற்ற
unfair in Marathi
- अन्यायकारक
unfair in Urdu
- بےاخلاق, بےایمان, بےانصاف, بےجا, غیرعادل, غیریکساں
unfair in Bengali
- অন্যায্য, পক্ষপাতদুষ্ট
More languagesFewer languages
- unfair in Malayalam
- അന്യായമായ
- unfair in Kannada
- ಕೊಳಕು koḷaku
- unfair in Punjabi
- ਬੇਇਨਸਾਫ਼ੀ
- unfair in Gujarati
- અન્યાયી, અન્યાયપૂર્ણ, અન્યાયકારક
- unfair in Odia
- ଅନ୍ଯ଼ାଯ଼ପୂର୍ଣ୍ଣ
- unfair in Vietnamese
- bất công
Examples of unfair in a sentence
- 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.2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist, volume 100, number 2...
- Cuphead built a reputation for difficulty before release, but its boss battles are mostly about recognizing patterns than getting lucky against unfair bosses.2017 October 2, Heather Alexandra, “Cuphead Player Beats Bosses Without Taking A Single Hit”, in Kotaku, archived from the original on 18...
Synonyms of unfair
Antonyms
Forms of unfair
| Adjective | |
|---|---|
| comparative | unfairer |
| comparative | more unfair |
| superlative | unfairest |
| superlative | most unfair |
| Verb | |
| third-person singular present | unfairs |
| present participle | unfairing |
| past participle | unfaired |
| past | unfaired |
Origin of unfair
From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair.
Words formed from unfair
Phrases with unfair
Words that rhyme with unfair
48 more rhymesFewer rhymes
- declare
- hair
- Sinclair
- where
- ayr
- care
- layer
- mayor
- parterre
- fare
- glare
- lair
- pear
- prayer
- snare
- compare
- dare
- rare
- share
- swear
- ware
- wear and tear
- Ayer
- blare
- flair
- forbear
- Kerr
- laissez faire
- mousquetaire
- pare
- prepare
- repair
- stare
- yare
- -ware
- abear
- aflare
- despair
- glair
- heir
- impair
- Pierre
- reair
- scare
- tare
- trillionaire
- Voltaire
- aware
Questions about unfair
- What does unfair mean?
- Unfair means not just.
- What is unfair in Tamil?
- Unfair in Tamil is அநியாயமான, நியாயமற்ற, செவ்வையற்ற. See Unfair meaning in Tamil.
- How do you use unfair in a sentence?
- 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.
- What part of speech is unfair?
- Unfair can be an adjective or a verb.
- How do you pronounce unfair?
- Unfair is pronounced /ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/ (UK).
Words near unfair in the dictionary
Source and license
Adapted from Wiktionary: unfair (page history and authors); unfair (Tamil Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unfair (Marathi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unfair (Urdu Wiktionary) (page history and authors); Unfair (Bengali Wiktionary) (page history and authors); unfair (Malayalam Wiktionary) (page history and authors); ಕೊಳಕು (Kannada) (page history and authors); unfair (Punjabi, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unfair (Gujarati, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model and license); unfair (Odia, IndicTrans2 machine translation) (model 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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