impartial

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