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Antonyms for fairer
Grammar : Adj |
Spell : fair |
Phonetic Transcription : fɛər |
- abnormal
- biased
- black
- brunette
- cloudy
- colored
- colorful
- dark
- darkened
- deceitful
- decided
- devious
- dishonest
- disproportionate
- exceptional
- extraordinary
- extreme
- illegal
- illegitimate
- impolite
- inadequate
- inclement
- infrequent
- insufficient
- intolerable
- lying
- mean
- misbehaving
- noble
- partial
- prejudiced
- rainy
- rare
- repellent
- repulsive
- rude
- stormy
- subjective
- tricky
- ugly
- uncommon
- unequitable
- unfair
- unfit
- unjust
- unkind
- unlawful
- unreasonable
- unreliable
- unsuitable
- untrustworthy
- unusual
- unvirtuous
Definition of fairer
Origin :- Old English fæger "beautiful, lovely, pleasant," from Proto-Germanic *fagraz (cf. Old Saxon fagar, Old Norse fagr, Old High German fagar "beautiful," Gothic fagrs "fit"), perhaps from PIE *pek- "to make pretty" (cf. Lithuanian puošiu "I decorate").
- The meaning in reference to weather (c.1200) preserves the original sense (opposed to foul). Sense of "light-complexioned" (1550s) reflects tastes in beauty; sense of "free from bias" (mid-14c.) evolved from another early meaning, "morally pure, unblemished" (late 12c.). The sporting senses (fair ball, fair catch etc.) began in 1856. Fair play is from 1590s; fair and square is from c.1600. Fair-haired in the figurative sense of "darling, favorite" is from 1909. First record of fair-weather friends is from 1736.
- adj impartial, unprejudiced
- adj light-complexioned, light-haired
- adj mediocre, satisfactory
- adj beautiful
- adj bright, cloudless (weather)
- Suddenly, too, the world took to his eyes a brighter and fairer aspect.
- Extract from : « Alice, or The Mysteries, Complete » by Edward Bulwer-Lytton
- And will he then change himself for the better and fairer, or for the worse and more unsightly?
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- Indeed, he said, in no way could they make a fairer picture.
- Extract from : « The Republic » by Plato
- In landscapes the painter should give the suggestion of a fairer creation than we know.
- Extract from : « Essays, First Series » by Ralph Waldo Emerson
- For surely you cannot have discovered a fairer love than he is; certainly not in this city of Athens.
- Extract from : « Protagoras » by Plato
- No one would deny that the test proposed is fairer, speedier, and safer than any other.
- Extract from : « Laws » by Plato
- If so, what fairer test of courage will you propose than the arbitrament of war—the war just ended?
- Extract from : « Hellenica » by Xenophon
- And her complexion was fairer than Parian marble, than the heads of angels.
- Extract from : « Within the Tides » by Joseph Conrad
- "It would have been fairer to have cast me adrift at first," said he, fiercely.
- Extract from : « Tony Butler » by Charles James Lever
- I think that is fairer to both parties,' said Henry judicially.
- Extract from : « A Great Man » by Arnold Bennett
Synonyms for fairer
- aboveboard
- adequate
- all right
- argent
- attractive
- average
- balmy
- beauteous
- benevolent
- blameless
- blanched
- bleached
- blond
- blonde
- bonny
- calm
- candid
- chalky
- charming
- chaste
- civil
- clarion
- clean
- clear
- clement
- colorless
- comely
- common
- commonplace
- courteous
- creamy
- dainty
- decent
- delicate
- disinterested
- dispassionate
- dry
- enchanting
- equal
- equitable
- even-handed
- exquisite
- faded
- fair-haired
- fair-skinned
- fairish
- favorable
- fine
- flaxen-haired
- frank
- generous
- good
- good-looking
- handsome
- honest
- honorable
- impartial
- indifferent
- intermediate
- just
- lawful
- legitimate
- light
- lovely
- mean
- medium
- middling
- mild
- milky
- moderate
- neutral
- nonpartisan
- not bad
- objective
- okay
- on the level
- on up-and-up
- open
- ordinary
- pale
- pale-faced
- pallid
- passable
- pearly
- pious
- placid
- pleasant
- praiseworthy
- pretty
- pretty good
- principled
- proper
- pulchritudinous
- pure
- rainless
- reasonable
- respectable
- righteous
- sallow
- satisfactory
- scrupulous
- silvery
- sincere
- smiling
- snowy
- so-so
- square
- straight
- straightforward
- sunny
- sunshiny
- temperate
- tolerable
- tow-haired
- tow-headed
- tranquil
- trustworthy
- unbiased
- unclouded
- uncolored
- uncorrupted
- undarkened
- unthreatening
- up to standard
- upright
- usual
- virtuous
- white
- whitish
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