BIASED Synonyms: 66 Similar and Opposite Words

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adjective

ˈbī-əst

Definition of biased

as in partial

inclined to favor one side over another in my admittedly biased opinion, my wife is always the prettiest woman in whatever room she graces

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biased

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verb

variants or biassed

past tense of bias

as in turned

to cause to have often negative opinions formed without sufficient knowledge bad reviews biased her against the movie, even though it starred one of her favorite actors

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Recent Examples of biased

Adjective

Relevant and reliable numbers reveal that under and throughout de Blasio’s two mayoral terms the NYPD resumed its aggressive, starkly biased tactics. — Robert Gangi, New York Daily News, 16 Aug. 2026 The college’s Board of Trustees subsequently successfully sought to disqualify Ruiz from handling future cases involving the college and the presidential library, arguing that she was personally biased in favor of Dunn. — Milena Malaver, Miami Herald, 15 Aug. 2026

Verb

The person Missouri Attorney General Catherine Hanaway chose to illustrate that Kansas City’s contracting system is biased has a history of ties to Kansas City Mafia figures. — Jack Harvel august 17, Kansas City Star, 17 Aug. 2026 In addition to being arbitrary, reductionist, and biased, classifying individuals as obese or overweight based on a single number ignores many complexities about body fat. — Literary Hub, 17 Aug. 2026 See All Example Sentences for biased

Recent Examples of Synonyms for biased

Adjective

Even with just a partial return, last season’s figures clearly show why Barca embarked on such an expensive project in the first place.

— Chris Weatherspoon, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
This comes after a partial glacier collapse in the Himalayan mountains unleashed a sudden surge of water, mud, and debris that swept through border crossings, valley communities, and hydropower projects on August 26.

— Jeremy Hsu, ArsTechnica, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of partial

Verb

Before Buchanan turned his final prayer into a touchdown, Underwood was quite underwhelming (11 of 21, 123 yards, INT, lost fumble).

— Manny Navarro, New York Times, 6 Sep. 2026
My patients tell me the apps have turned dating into a competitive marketplace marked by quick and easy rejection.

— CNN Money, CNN Money, 5 Sep. 2026

Definition of turned

Adjective

Terrorism wasn’t a completely foreign concept, but the notion of a hostile, coordinated attack on our soil, at that scale, seemed like something that might only happen in a Tom Clancy novel or a summer blockbuster movie.

— Michael Silver, New York Times, 11 Sep. 2026
Now, civil engineer Jishen Qiu and his team wondered if engineers could exploit Mars’s hostile climate, rather than fighting the planet’s extremely low temperature.

— Mrigakshi Dixit, Interesting Engineering, 10 Sep. 2026

Definition of hostile

Verb

Here on Earth, we are slightly prejudiced by our single sun to view stars as somewhat solitary bodies.

— Robert Lea, Space.com, 9 Sep. 2026
Texas law allows courts to reject an arbitration award when, for example, the process substantially prejudiced a party’s rights, involved fraud or arbitrator misconduct, or exceeded the arbitrator’s authority.

— Asma Uddin, The Conversation, 31 Aug. 2026

Definition of prejudiced

Adjective

The standard medical terms clinicians rely on may become distorted or polluted.

— Frank Naeymi-Rad, Forbes.com, 18 Aug. 2026
La Nueva Violencia is a smirking, libidinous play for the dance floor, picking up where the distorted guitars of the last record left off and channeling each new riff into sleazy post-punk and electroclash that stick to the body like sweaty velvet.

— Richard Villegas, Rolling Stone, 14 Aug. 2026

Definition of distorted

Verb

The scammers allegedly convinced the victim to give them access to his Google Drive and provide security codes that allowed Lam and others to siphon off more than 4,100 Bitcoin, then worth over $240 million.

— Stephen Sorace, FOXNews.com, 7 Sep. 2026
Russia denied involvement, saying Germany had planted evidence, but NATO is convinced this is the latest incident in the Kremlin’s long-running hybrid warfare campaign of sabotage and cyberattacks.

— Tom Chivers, semafor.com, 7 Sep. 2026

Definition of convinced

Adjective

The rule of law, free expression, and equal citizenship are not partisan preferences to be renegotiated after every election.

— Joe Daniels, Time, 11 Sep. 2026
Over the following quarter century, this mechanism migrated from Muslims to immigrants, racial protesters, cultural minorities, and, ultimately, partisan opponents themselves.

— Daniel Benjamin, Foreign Affairs, 11 Sep. 2026

Definition of partisan

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