English
Etymology
Borrowed from Middle French impartial. See im- + partial.
Pronunciation
- IPA(key): /ɪmˈpɑɹ.ʃəl/
- Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl
Adjective
impartial (comparative more impartial, superlative most impartial)
- treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased
- Synonyms: neutral, unbiased, fair; see also Thesaurus:impartial
- Antonyms: partial, biased, unfair
1621 November 13 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Populum.] The Fourth Sermon. In St. Pauls Church London. 4. Nov. 1621.”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 37, page 208:[W]e are to take a ſecond ſurvievv of our Abilities, to ſee if they be confidently fit for that vvhereto our inclination ſvvayeth us: and if upon due impartial examination vve find they are, vve may then follovv the ſvvay of our inclinations.
Derived terms
Translations
treating all parties, rivals or disputants equally
- Armenian: անկողմնակալ (hy) (ankoġmnakal)
- Belarusian: бесстаро́нні (bjesstarónni), непрадузя́ты (njepraduzjáty)
- Bulgarian: безпристрастен (bg) (bezpristrasten), непредубеден (bg) (nepredubeden)
- Catalan: imparcial (ca)
- Chinese:
- Mandarin: 公正 (zh) (gōngzhèng); 公平 (zh) (gōngpíng); 不偏不倚的 (zh) (bùpiānbùyǐ de)
- Czech: nestranný (cs) m
- Danish: upartisk
- Dutch: onpartijdig (nl)
- Estonian: erapooletu
- Finnish: tasapuolinen (fi), reilu (fi)
- French: impartial (fr)
- Galician: imparcial
- German: unparteiisch (de), unparteilich (de)
- Greek: αμερόληπτος (el) (ameróliptos)
- Ancient Greek: ἀδέκαστος (adékastos)
- Hindi: तटस्थ (hi) m (taṭasth)
- Hungarian: pártatlan (hu), elfogulatlan (hu)
- Italian: imparziale (it)
- Macedonian: непристрасен (nepristrasen)
- Malayalam: നിഷ്പക്ഷ (ml) (niṣpakṣa)
- Manx: neuvaiagh
- Maori: tōkeke, ngākau tapatahi
- Norwegian: upartisk, objektiv (no)
- Persian: حقگو (haqgu)
- Polish: bezstronny (pl)
- Portuguese: imparcial (pt)
- Romanian: imparțial (ro), nepărtinitor (ro) m
- Russian: беспристра́стный (ru) (bespristrástnyj), непредвзя́тый (ru) (nepredvzjátyj), непредубеждённый (ru) (nepredubeždjónnyj)
- Sanskrit: मध्यस्थ (sa) (madhyastha)
- Scottish Gaelic: cothromach, neo-chlaon
- Spanish: imparcial (es)
- Swedish: opartisk (sv)
- Turkish: adil (tr), tarafsız (tr), yansız (tr)
- Ukrainian: безсторо́нній (uk) (bezstorónnij), неупере́джений (neuperédženyj)
- Welsh: diragfarn (cy)
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Anagrams
French
Etymology
From im- + partial.
Pronunciation
Adjective
impartial (feminine impartiale, masculine plural impartiaux, feminine plural impartiales)
- impartial
Derived terms
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