ONE-SIDED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does one-sided mean? 

• ONE-SIDED (adjective)
  The adjective ONE-SIDED has 3 senses:

1. not reversible or capable of having either side out

2. involving only one part or side

3. favoring one person or side over another

  Familiarity information: ONE-SIDED used as an adjective is uncommon.

 Dictionary entry details 

• ONE-SIDED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Not reversible or capable of having either side out

Synonyms:

nonreversible; one-sided

Sense 2

Meaning:

Involving only one part or side

Synonyms:

one-sided; unilateral

Context example:

a unilateral decision

Similar:

one-party (determined by a single party)

Sense 3

Meaning:

Favoring one person or side over another

Synonyms:

biased; colored; coloured; one-sided; slanted

Context example:

a decision that was partial to the defendant

Similar:

partial (showing favoritism)

 Context examples 

Long she argued it with him, but the argument was one-sided, for he contented himself with repeating again and again, "He killed Dutchy and Harkey."

(Love of Life and Other Stories, by Jack London)

Hated by his kind and by mankind, indomitable, perpetually warred upon and himself waging perpetual war, his development was rapid and one-sided.

(White Fang, by Jack London)

Mrs. Crupp, who had been incessantly smiling to express sweet temper, and incessantly holding her head on one side, to express a general feebleness of constitution, and incessantly rubbing her hands, to express a desire to be of service to all deserving objects, gradually smiled herself, one-sided herself, and rubbed herself, out of the room.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)