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UNBIASSED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does unbiassed mean? 

UNBIASSED (adjective)
  The adjective UNBIASSED has 2 senses:

1. characterized by a lack of partialityplay

2. without biasplay

  Familiarity information: UNBIASSED used as an adjective is rare.


 Dictionary entry details 


UNBIASSED (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 


In the calmness of her own dressing-room, in the impartial flow of her own meditations, unbiassed by his bewildering statements, she could not acknowledge any necessity for Fanny's ever going near a father and mother who had done without her so long, while she was so useful to herself.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

"How do you know the limit is off?" I broke in excitedly, for here was where my work could be tried out on an unbiassed judge who knew life only, and not art, and who was a sheer master of reality.

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

Walt won in the end, and his victory was most probably due to the fact that he was a man, though Madge averred that they would have had another quarter of a mile of gurgling brook, and at least two west winds sighing through their redwoods, had Wait properly devoted his energies to song-transmutation and left Wolf alone to exercise a natural taste and an unbiassed judgment.

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



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