UNBIASED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbiased mean? 

• UNBIASED (adjective)
  The adjective UNBIASED has 2 senses:

1. characterized by a lack of partiality

2. without bias

  Familiarity information: UNBIASED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• UNBIASED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Characterized by a lack of partiality

Synonyms:

indifferent; unbiased; unbiassed

Context example:

an unbiased account of her family problems

Similar:

impartial (showing lack of favoritism)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Without bias

Synonyms:

unbiased; unbiassed

Similar:

nonpartisan; nonpartizan (free from party affiliation or bias)

 Context examples 

You want current, unbiased information based on research.

(Evaluating Health Information, NIH: National Library of Medicine)

Mrs. Dashwood would have interrupted her instantly with soothing tenderness, had not Elinor, who really wished to hear her sister's unbiased opinion, by an eager sign, engaged her silence.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

If Emma had still, at intervals, an anxious feeling for Harriet, a momentary doubt of its being possible for her to be really cured of her attachment to Mr. Knightley, and really able to accept another man from unbiased inclination, it was not long that she had to suffer from the recurrence of any such uncertainty.

(Emma, by Jane Austen)