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fair

noun

Synonyms and Antonyms of fair

a public showing of objects of interest

  • a dazzling array of sleek cabin cruisers at the annual boat fair
Synonyms of fair

display, exhibit, exhibition, expo, exposition, show
Words Related to fair

demonstration, performance, presentation, production

extravaganza, pageant, spectacle

auction, offering, presentment, sale

fair

adjective

Synonyms and Antonyms of fair

1 not stormy or cloudy

  • we prayed for fair weather during our vacation at the beach
Synonyms of fair

bright, clear, cloudless, sunny, sunshiny, unclouded
Words Related to fair

balmy, clement, gentle, mild, moderate, temperate

calm, halcyon, peaceful, placid, serene, tranquil

fine, pleasant
Near Antonyms of fair

harsh, inclement, severe

blustering, blustery, breezy, gusty

foggy, hazy, misty, murky, soupy
Antonyms of fair

bleak, cloudy, dirty, foul, nasty, overcast, rainy, raw, rough, squally, stormy, sunless, tempestuous, turbulent

2 marked by justice, honesty, and freedom from bias

  • a commanding officer who enjoyed the respect of his soldiers because his decisions were always fair
Synonyms of fair

candid, disinterested, dispassionate, equal, equitable, evenhanded, impartial, indifferent, just, nonpartisan, objective, square, unbiased, unprejudiced
Words Related to fair

frank, forthright, open, straight, straightforward

balanced, rational, reasonable
Near Antonyms of fair

deceitful, deceptive, dishonest

arbitrary, unconscionable, unreasonable

jaundiced, unfriendly, unsympathetic

colored, distorted, warped
Antonyms of fair

biased, ex parte, inequitable, nonobjective, one-sided, partial, parti pris, partisan, prejudiced, unjust

3 following or according to the rules

  • a hockey player who is respected for his fair play
Synonyms of fair

clean, legal, sportsmanlike, sportsmanly
Words Related to fair

just, law-abiding

ethical, moral, principled, scrupulous

honorable, irreproachable, unimpeachable
Near Antonyms of fair

immoral, unethical, unprincipled, unrighteous, unscrupulous, vicious, wrong
Antonyms of fair

dirty, foul, nasty, unfair, unsportsmanlike

4 of light complexion

  • fair people tend to sunburn easily
Synonyms of fair

light
Words Related to fair

ashen, ashy, pale, paled, palish, pallid, pasty, peaked, peaky, sallow, sallowish, wan, white
Antonyms of fair

black, brunet (or brunette), dark, swart, swarthy

5 having qualities which inspire hope

  • as long as the team keeps playing as hard as they can, they have a fair chance of winning—no matter what the scoreboard says
Synonyms of fair

auspicious, bright, encouraging, golden, heartening, hopeful, likely, optimistic, promising, propitious, rose-colored, roseate, rosy, upbeat
Words Related to fair

cheering, comforting, reassuring, soothing

assured, confident, decisive, doubtless, positive, sure, unhesitating

beamish, bullish, eupeptic

favorable, good
Near Antonyms of fair

cheerless, comfortless

doubtful, dubious, uncertain

bearish, grim, negative, unfavorable

funereal, glum, gray (also grey), miserable, wretched
Antonyms of fair

bleak, dark, depressing, desperate, discouraging, disheartening, dismal, downbeat, dreary, gloomy, hopeless, inauspicious, pessimistic, unencouraging, unlikely, unpromising, unpropitious

6 of a pale yellow or yellowish brown color

  • the abundance of people with fair hair in Scandinavia
Synonyms of fair

blond (or blonde), flaxen, golden, sandy, straw, tawny
Words Related to fair

ocherous (or ochreous)

ash-blond (or ash-blonde), blondish, strawberry blonde (or strawberry blond), towheaded

gold, light, white
Near Antonyms of fair

black-a-vised, brown, brunet (or brunette), dark, olive, swart, swarthy

black, ebony, raven

7 of average to below average quality

  • for what they charged us, the painters should have done better than a fair job of painting the house
Synonyms of fair

common, indifferent, mediocre, medium, middling, ordinary, passable, run-of-the-mill, run-of-the-mine (or run-of-mine), second-class, second-rate, so-so
Words Related to fair

acceptable, adequate, all right, alright, decent, OK (or okay), reasonable, satisfactory, sufficient, sufficing, tolerable

moderate, modest

presentable, respectable

minimal, unexceptional

fine, good, nice
Near Antonyms of fair

A1, capital, choice, classic, distinguished, excellent, exceptional, exquisite, fabulous, fantastic, fine, first-class, first-rate, grand, great, marvelous (or marvellous), matchless, maximum, nifty, number one (also No. 1), optimal, optimum, outstanding, par excellence, peerless, preeminent, prime, sensational, special, splendid, stellar, sterling, superb, superior, superlative, supreme, swell, terrific, tip-top, top, top-notch

unmatched, unparalleled, unsurpassed

deficient, inadequate, insufficient, lacking, unacceptable, unsatisfactory, wanting

8 very pleasing to look at

  • generally considered the fairest girl in town, she had no lack of boyfriends
Synonyms of fair

aesthetic (also esthetic), attractive, beauteous, beautiful, bonny (also bonnie) [chiefly British], comely, cute, drop-dead, fetching, good, good-looking, goodly, gorgeous, handsome, knockout, likely, lovely, lovesome, pretty, ravishing, seemly, sightly, stunning, taking, well-favored
Words Related to fair

alluring, appealing, charming, cunning, delightful, engaging, fascinating, glamorous (also glamourous), prepossessing

elegant, exquisite, glorious, Junoesque, magnificent, resplendent, splendid, statuesque, sublime, superb

flawless, perfect, radiant

dainty, delicate

personable, pleasant, presentable

chocolate-box, prettyish

desirable, dishy, dollish, foxy, hot, luscious, nubile, pulchritudinous, seductive, sexy, toothsome

hunky, studly [slang]

arresting, eye-catching, flamboyant, flashy, glossy, showstopping, showy, slick, snazzy, splashy, striking, zingy

photogenic, telegenic
Near Antonyms of fair

abhorrent, abominable, bad, disagreeable, disgusting, dreadful, foul, frightful, ghastly, horrible, loathsome, nasty, nauseating, objectionable, offensive, repellent (also repellant), repugnant, repulsive, revolting, shocking, sickening, terrible, vile

unappealing, unappetizing, unimposing, unpleasant, unprepossessing

frumpish, frumpy, unbecoming, unshapely
Antonyms of fair

grotesque, hideous, homely, ill-favored, plain, ugly, unaesthetic, unattractive, unbeautiful, uncomely, uncute, unhandsome, unlovely, unpleasing, unpretty, unsightly

9 having no exceptions or restrictions

  • it would take a fair miracle for that project to be finished on time
Synonyms of fair

absolute, all-out, arrant, blank, blooming [chiefly British], bodacious [Southern & Midland], categorical (also categoric), clean, complete, consummate, cotton-picking, crashing, damn, damned, dead, deadly, definite, downright, dreadful, flat, flat-out, out-and-out, outright, perfect, plumb, profound, pure, rank, regular, sheer, simple, stark, stone, straight-out, thorough, thoroughgoing, total, unadulterated, unalloyed, unconditional, unmitigated, unqualified, utter, very
Words Related to fair

authentic, classic, genuine, real, veritable

constant, endless, eternal, perpetual, undying, unremitting

extreme, unrestricted

confirmed, habitual, hopeless, inveterate

extraordinary, frightful, horrible, huge, main, superlative, supreme, surpassing, terrible, terrific
Near Antonyms of fair

doubtful, dubious, equivocal, qualified, questionable, restricted, uncertain

10 being what is called for by accepted standards of right and wrong

  • most thought his dismissal was fair since he had been given many chances to clean up his act
Synonyms of fair

competent, condign, deserved, due, just, justified, merited, right, rightful, warranted
Words Related to fair

applicable, appropriate, apt, fit, fitting, meet, proper, requisite, suitable

lawful, legal, legitimate

accurate, correct, true

rhadamanthine, strict, stringent, uncompromising

equitable, impartial, square
Near Antonyms of fair

incoherent, incorrect, irrelative, irrelevant

improper, inapplicable, inapposite, inappropriate, inapt, indefensible, unjustifiable, unreasonable, unsuitable

biased, inequitable, partial, unequal

arbitrary, despotic

illegitimate, unlawful
Antonyms of fair

undeserved, undue, unfair, unjust, unjustified, unmerited, unwarranted

11 free from dirt or stain

  • a handwritten thank-you letter requires nothing less than a sheet of fair white paper
Synonyms of fair

antiseptic, chaste, clean, immaculate, pristine, spick-and-span (or spic-and-span), spotless, squeaky-clean, stainless, unsoiled, unstained, unsullied
Words Related to fair

pure, taintless, undefiled, unpolluted, untainted, wholesome

cleanly, germfree, hygienic, sanitary, sterile

abluted, bleached, cleansed, purified, scrubbed, washed, whitened

milky, snowy, white

flawless, unblemished

bright, shiny, sparkling
Near Antonyms of fair

dingy, greasy, grimy, mucky, muddy, unwashed

defiled, germy, polluted, tainted, unsterile, unsterilized

blackened, discolored
Antonyms of fair

besmirched, dirty, filthy, foul, grubby, smirched, soiled, spotted, stained, sullied, unclean, uncleaned

Synonym Discussion of fair

fair, just, equitable, impartial, unbiased, dispassionate, objective mean free from favor toward either or any side. fair implies a proper balance of conflicting interests.
    • a fair decision
just implies an exact following of a standard of what is right and proper.
    • a just settlement of territorial claims
equitable implies a less rigorous standard than just and usually suggests equal treatment of all concerned.
    • the equitable distribution of the property
impartial stresses an absence of favor or prejudice.
    • an impartial third party
unbiased implies even more strongly an absence of all prejudice.
    • your unbiased opinion
dispassionate suggests freedom from the influence of strong feeling and often implies cool or even cold judgment.
    • a dispassionate summation of the facts
objective stresses a tendency to view events or persons as apart from oneself and one's own interest or feelings.
    • I can't be objective about my own child

synonyms see in addition beautiful

fair

adverb

Synonyms and Antonyms of fair

1 according to the rules or the law

  • we expect everyone on this basketball court to play fair
Synonyms of fair

clean, cleanly, fairly, legally
Words Related to fair

ethically, high-mindedly, morally, nobly

honorably
Near Antonyms of fair

ignobly, immorally, underhandedly, unethically

dishonorably
Antonyms of fair

dirty, illegally

2 chiefly British very close to but not completely

  • it fair takes your breath away when you find out what properties in London are going for
Synonyms of fair

about, all but, almost, borderline, fairly, feckly [chiefly Scottish], more or less, most, much, near, nearly, next to, nigh, practically, somewhere, virtually, well-nigh
Words Related to fair

appreciably, by and large, chiefly, largely, mainly, mostly

kind of, partially, partly, somewhat
Phrases Synonymous with fair

as good as, just about, pretty much, within an inch of
Near Antonyms of fair

absolutely, altogether, completely, entirely, fully, plain, plumb [chiefly dialect], quite, thoroughly

totally, utterly, well, wholly

barely, hardly, scarcely

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