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fairnoun a public showing of objects of interesta dazzling array of sleek cabin cruisers at the annual boat fair display, exhibit, exhibition, expo, exposition, show demonstration, performance, presentation, productionextravaganza, pageant, spectacleauction, offering, presentment, sale fairadjectivenot stormy or cloudywe prayed for fair weather during our vacation at the beach bright, clear, cloudless, sunny, sunshiny, unclouded balmy, clement, gentle, mild, moderate, temperatecalm, halcyon, peaceful, placid, serene, tranquilfine, pleasant bleak, cloudy, dirty, foul, nasty, overcast, rainy, raw, rough, squally, stormy, sunless, tempestuous, turbulent harsh, inclement, severeblustering, blustery, breezy, gustyfoggy, hazy, misty, murky, soupy marked by justice, honesty, and freedom from biasa commanding officer who enjoyed the respect of his soldiers because his decisions were always fair candid, disinterested, dispassionate, equal, equitable, evenhanded, impartial, indifferent, just, nonpartisan, objective, square, unbiased, unprejudiced frank, forthright, open, straight, straightforwardbalanced, rational, reasonable biased, ex parte, inequitable, nonobjective, one-sided, partial, parti pris, partisan, prejudiced, unjust deceitful, deceptive, dishonestarbitrary, unconscionable, unreasonablejaundiced, unfriendly, unsympatheticcolored, distorted, warped following or according to the rulesa hockey player who is respected for his fair play clean, legal, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly just, law-abidingethical, moral, principled, scrupuloushonorable, irreproachable, unimpeachable dirty, foul, nasty, unfair, unsportsmanlike immoral, unethical, unprincipled, unrighteous, unscrupulous, vicious, wrong of light complexionfair people tend to sunburn easily light ashen, ashy, pale, paled, palish, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, wan, white black, brunet(or brunette), dark, swart, swarthy having qualities which inspire hopeas long as the team keeps playing as hard as they can, they have a fair chance of winning—no matter what the scoreboard says auspicious, bright, encouraging, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothingassured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitatingbeamish, bullish, eupepticfavorable, good bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious cheerless, comfortlessdoubtful, dubious, uncertainbearish, grim, negative, unfavorablefunereal, glum, gray(also grey), miserable, wretched of a pale yellow or yellowish brown colorthe abundance of people with fair hair in Scandinavia blond(or blonde), flaxen, golden, sandy, straw, tawny ocherous(or ochreous)ash-blond(or ash-blonde), blondish, strawberry blonde(or strawberry blond), towheadedgold, light, white black-a-vised, brown, brunet(or brunette), dark, olive, swart, swarthyblack, ebony, raven of average to below average qualityfor what they charged us, the painters should have done better than a fair job of painting the house common, indifferent, mediocre, medium, middling, ordinary, passable, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine(or run-of-mine), second-class, second-rate, so-so acceptable, adequate, all right, alright, decent, OK(or okay), reasonable, satisfactory, sufficient, sufficing, tolerablemoderate, modestpresentable, respectableminimal, unexceptionalfine, good, nice A1, capital, choice, classic, distinguished, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, fabulous, fantastic, first-class, first-rate, grand, great, marvelous(or marvellous), matchless, maximum, nifty, number one(also No. 1), optimal, optimum, outstanding, par excellence, peerless, preeminent, prime, sensational, special, splendid, stellar, sterling, superb, superior, superlative, supreme, swell, terrific, tip-top, top, top-notchunmatched, unparalleled, unsurpasseddeficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, wanting very pleasing to look atgenerally considered the fairest girl in town, she had no lack of boyfriends aesthetic(also esthetic or aesthetical or esthetical), attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bonny(also bonnie, chiefly British), comely, cute, drop-dead, fetching, good, good-looking, goodly, gorgeous, handsome, knockout, likely, lovely, lovesome, pretty, ravishing, seemly, sightly, stunning, taking, well-favored alluring, appealing, charming, cunning, delightful, engaging, fascinating, glamorous(also glamourous), prepossessingelegant, exquisite, glorious, Junoesque, magnificent, resplendent, splendid, statuesque, sublime, superbflawless, perfect, radiantdainty, delicatepersonable, pleasant, presentablechocolate-box, prettyishdesirable, dishy, dollish, foxy, hot, luscious, nubile, pulchritudinous, seductive, sexy, toothsomehunky, studly(slang)arresting, eye-catching, flamboyant, flashy, glossy, showstopping, showy, slick, snazzy, splashy, striking, zingyphotogenic, telegenic grotesque, hideous, homely, ill-favored, plain, ugly, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, uncute, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly abhorrent, abominable, bad, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, objectionable, offensive, repellent(also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sickening, terrible, vileunappealing, unappetizing, unimposing, unpleasant, unprepossessingfrumpish, frumpy, unbecoming, unshapely having no exceptions or restrictionsit would take a fair miracle for that project to be finished on time absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming(chiefly British), bodacious(Southern & Midland), categorical(also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritableconstant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremittingextreme, unrestrictedconfirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterateextraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrific doubtful, dubious, equivocal, qualified, questionable, restricted, uncertain being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrongmost thought his dismissal was fair since he had been given many chances to clean up his act competent, condign, deserved, due, just, justified, merited, right, rightful, warranted applicable, appropriate, apt, fit, fitting, meet, proper, requisite, suitablelawful, legal, legitimateaccurate, correct, truerhadamanthine, strict, stringent, uncompromisingequitable, impartial, square undeserved, undue, unfair, unjust, unjustified, unmerited, unwarranted incoherent, incorrect, irrelative, irrelevantimproper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, indefensible, unjustifiable, unreasonable, unsuitablebiased, inequitable, partial, unequalarbitrary, despoticillegitimate, unlawful free from dirt or staina handwritten thank-you letter requires nothing less than a sheet of fair white paper antiseptic, chaste, clean, immaculate, pristine, spick-and-span(or spic-and-span), spotless, squeaky-clean, stainless, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied pure, taintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, wholesomecleanly, germfree, hygienic, sanitary, sterileabluted, bleached, cleansed, purified, scrubbed, washed, whitenedmilky, snowy, whiteflawless, unblemishedbright, shiny, sparkling besmirched, dirty, filthy, foul, grubby, smirched, soiled, spotted, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleaned dingy, greasy, grimy, mucky, muddy, unwasheddefiled, germy, polluted, tainted, unsterile, unsterilizedblackened, discolored fairadverbaccording to the rules or the lawwe expect everyone on this basketball court to play fair clean, cleanly, fairly, legally ethically, high-mindedly, morally, noblyhonorably dirty, illegally ignobly, immorally, underhandedly, unethicallydishonorably chiefly Britishvery close to but not completelyit fair takes your breath away when you find out what properties in London are going for about, all but, almost, borderline, fairly, feckly(chiefly Scottish), more or less, most, much, near, nearly, next to, nigh, practically, somewhere, virtually, well-nigh appreciably, by and large, chiefly, largely, mainly, mostlykind of, partially, partly, somewhat as good as, just about, pretty much, within an inch of absolutely, altogether, completely, entirely, fully, plain, plumb(chiefly dialect), quite, thoroughlytotally, utterly, well, whollybarely, hardly, scarcely adj.fair, just, equitable, impartial, unbiased, dispassionate, objective mean free from favor toward either or any side.fair implies a proper balance of conflicting interests.a fair decision just implies an exact following of a standard of what is right and proper.a just settlement of territorial claims equitable implies a less rigorous standard than just and usually suggests equal treatment of all concerned.the equitable distribution of the property impartial stresses an absence of favor or prejudice.an impartial third party unbiased implies even more strongly an absence of all prejudice.your unbiased opinion dispassionate suggests freedom from the influence of strong feeling and often implies cool or even cold judgment.a dispassionate summation of the facts objective stresses a tendency to view events or persons as apart from oneself and one's own interest or feelings.I can't be objective about my own child Cf. beautiful. before the 12th century |