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| 1. | [ adjective ] free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules | |
| Synonyms: | just | |
| Examples: | "a fair referee "fair deal" "on a fair footing" "a fair fight" "by fair means or foul" |
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| Related terms: | unfair clean antimonopoly fair-and-square fair-minded fair-and-square fair-minded reasonable impartial just fairness | |
| 2. | [ adjective ] showing lack of favoritism | |
| Synonyms: | impartial | |
| Examples: | "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge" |
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| Related terms: | partial cold-eyed dispassionate disinterested indifferent indifferent | |
| 3. | [ adjective ] not excessive or extreme | |
| Synonyms: | reasonable fairish | |
| Examples: | "a fairish income" "reasonable prices" |
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| Related terms: | moderate | |
| 4. | [ adjective ] more than adequate in quality | |
| Examples: | "fair work" |
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| Related terms: | respectable | |
| 5. | [ noun ] (horse racing,games) a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc. | |
| Synonyms: | funfair carnival | |
| Related terms: | show show midway | |
| 6. | [ adjective ] very pleasing to the eye | |
| Synonyms: | bonnie comely bonny | |
| Examples: | "my bonny lass" "there's a bonny bay beyond" "a comely face" "young fair maidens" |
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| Related terms: | beautiful | |
| 7. | [ verb ] join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly | |
| Related terms: | join | |
| 8. | [ adjective ] visually appealing | |
| Synonyms: | sightly | |
| Examples: | "our fair city" |
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| Related terms: | beautiful | |
| 9. | [ adjective ] free of clouds or rain | |
| Examples: | "today will be fair and warm" |
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| Related terms: | clear | |
| 10. | [ adjective ] (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored | |
| Synonyms: | fairish | |
| Examples: | "a fair complexion"; |
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| Related terms: | blond | |
| 11. | [ noun ] Last name, frequency rank in the U.S. is 1479 | |
| 12. | [ adjective ] (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines | |
| Examples: | "he hit a fair ball over the third base bag" |
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| Related terms: | foul baseball in-bounds in-bounds | |
| 13. | [ noun ] gathering of producers to promote business | |
| Examples: | : "world fair" "trade fair" "book fair" |
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| Related terms: | gathering book_fair | |
| 14. | [ adjective ] attractively feminine (especially in the phrase "the fair sex") | |
| Related terms: | feminine | |
| 15. | [ adjective ] (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections | |
| Synonyms: | clean | |
| Examples: | "fair copy" "a clean manuscript" |
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| Related terms: | legible | |
| 16. | [ adjective ] of no exceptional quality or ability | |
| Synonyms: | average middling mediocre | |
| Examples: | "a novel of average merit" "only a fair performance of the sonata" "in fair health" "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average" "the performance was middling at best" |
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| Related terms: | ordinary | |
| 17. | [ adverb ] in a fair evenhanded manner | |
| Synonyms: | fairly without_favouring_one_party evenhandedly without_favoring_one_party | |
| Examples: | "deal fairly with one another" |
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| 18. | [ adverb ] in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating | |
| Synonyms: | clean fairly | |
| Examples: | "they played fairly" |
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| Related terms: | unfairly | |
| 19. | [ noun ] a competitive exhibition of farm products | |
| Examples: | "she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair" |
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| Related terms: | exhibition | |
| 20. | [ noun ] (business) a sale of miscellany; often for charity | |
| Synonyms: | bazaar | |
| Examples: | "the church bazaar" |
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| Related terms: | sale craft_fair book_fair | |
| Similar spelling: |
fairy Faire far Fairey Farr faro fare Fahr fairway Farry Farro Faria Farah faery Farrow Farrah faerie faraway |
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