Impartial

Definitions: Impartial

Impartial

Adjective

1. Showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge".

2. Free from undue bias or preconceived opinions; "an unprejudiced appraisal of the pros and cons"; "the impartial eye of a scientist".

Date "impartial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1595. (references)

Etymology: Impartial \Im*par"tial\, adjective. [Prefix im- not partial: compare to the French expression impartial.]. (Websters 1913)

Domain	Definitions
Satire	IMPARTIAL, adj. Unable to perceive any promise of personal advantage from espousing either side of a controversy or adopting either of two conflicting opinions. Source: Devil's Dictionary.
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Synonyms: Impartial

Synonyms: fair (adj), unprejudiced (adj). (additional references)

Antonyms: partial (adj), prejudiced (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Belief	Firm belief, implicit belief, settled belief, fixed rooted deep-rooted belief, staunch belief, unshaken belief, steadfast belief, inveterate belief, calm belief, sober belief, dispassionate belief, impartial belief, well-founded belief, firm opinion, implicit opinion, settled opinion, fixed rooted deep-rooted opinion, staunch opinion, unshaken opinion, steadfast opinion, inveterate opinion, calm opinion, sober opinion, dispassionate opinion, impartial opinion, well-founded opinion; uberrima fides.
Intelligence Wisdom	Unprejudiced, unbiased, unbigoted, unprepossessed; undazzled, unperplexed; unwarped judgment, impartial, equitable, fair.
Probity	Adjective: upright; honest, honest as daylight; veracious; virtuous; honorable; fair, right, just, equitable, impartial, evenhanded, square; fair and aboveboard, open and aboveboard; white.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Impartial

English words defined with "impartial": arbitration ♦ Dry light ♦ Egal, equally, Equitableness, evenly ♦ fair, fair-minded ♦ Impartialist, impartially, Imprejudicate, indifference, Indistinguishing ♦ Just intonation ♦ mediation ♦ The fair sex ♦ Undistinctive, Unpartial, unprejudiced, Unwarped. (references)

Specialty definitions using "impartial": sales agent, credit services, SALES AGENT, FINANCIAL-REPORT SERVICE. (references)

Etymologies containing "impartial": Impartialist, Imprejudicate, Indistinguishing ♦ Unpartial. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Impartial" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

French (dispassionate, even-minded, impartial, non-partisan, objective, unbiased, unprejudiced).

Domain	Usage
Screenplays	Tu vois, je suis neutre et impartial. Il y a les deux yeux Deux petits lacs marrons. (Sirène du Mississippi, La; writing credit: Fran�ois Truffaut)
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Domain	Title
Books	An impartial study of the Shakespeare title, with facsimiles (reference) Book of Fax: An Impartial Guide to Buying and Using Facsimile Machines (reference) Impartial Account of the Late Expedition Against S (reference) Impartial Judgment: The 'Dean of NFL Referees' Calls Pro Football As He Sees It (reference) Impartial Stranger: History and Intertextuality in Gibbon's Decline and Fall of the Roman Empire (reference) (more book examples)

Periodicals	L Impartial (reference) (more periodical examples)
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Author	Quotation
Goethe	I can promise to be candid, though I may not be impartial.
Horace	Pale death with an impartial foot knocks at the hovels of the poor and the palaces of king.
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Author	Date	Quotation
John Locke	1690	But whether the mischief hath oftener begun in the peoples wantonness, and a desire to cast off the lawful authority of their rulers, or in the rulers insolence, and endeavours to get and exercise an arbitrary power over their people; whether oppression, or disobedience, gave the first rise to the disorder, I leave it to impartial history to determine. (Second Treatise of Government)
US Bill of Rights	1795	Amendment VI. In all criminal prosecutions, the accused shall enjoy the right to a speedy and public trial, by an impartial jury of the State and district wherein the crime shall have been committed, which district shall have been previously ascertained by law, and to be informed of the nature and cause of the accusation; to be confronted with the witnesses against him; to have compulsory process for obtaining witnesses in his favor, and to have the Assistance of Counsel for his defence. (reference)
Communist Manifesto	1848	It went to the extreme length of directly opposing the "brutally destructive" tendency of Communism, and of proclaiming its supreme and impartial contempt of all class struggles. (reference)
Treaty of Versailles	1919	In case of any difference of opinion among the Delegates, which cannot be solved by reference to their Governments, upon the question whether a given case is one which requires a unanimous vote for its decision or not, such difference shall be referred to the immediate arbitration of some impartial person to be agreed upon by their Governments, whose award the Allied and Associated Governments agree to accept. (reference)
United Nations	1948	Everyone is entitled in full equality to a fair and public hearing by an independent and impartial tribunal, in the determination of his rights and obligations and of any criminal charge against him. (reference)
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Title	Author	Quote
Walden	Thoreau, Henry David	None can be an impartial or wise observer of human life but from the vantage ground of what we should call voluntary poverty.
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Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	Grenada	Anyone so restricted may appeal after 3 months to an independent and impartial tribunal. (references)
	Poland	Refugee advocates note that the board serves as an impartial and independent adjudicator of appeals. (references)
	Cambodia	According to a report by the UNHCHR, the procedures for licensing and allocation of radio and television frequencies to the media were not impartial. (references)
Economic History	Belgium	Belgium generally provides impartial treatment to foreign investors. (references)
	Romania	The ministry is to discharge its powers through independent, impartial public prosecutors. (references)
	Mauritius	Mauritius maintains a sophisticated and impartial legal system based on both Napoleonic code and British common law. (references)
Human Rights	Fiji	During the year, it appeared to be impartial and independent. (references)
	Dominica	The law provides for public trial before an independent, impartial court. (references)
	Rwanda	Only one or two local human rights NGO's are viewed as strictly impartial. (references)
Minorities	Latvia	However, international experts, government officials, and domestic human rights monitors have agreed that the country must continue to place high priority on and devote sufficient resources to implementing the citizenship law in a fair and impartial manner, as well as seek ways to expedite naturalization and promote social integration. (references)
Political Economy	Honduras	The judicial system continued to deny swift and impartial justice to prisoners awaiting trial. (references)
	Western Sahara	The Moroccan Government limits access to the territory, and international human rights organizations and impartial journalists sometimes have experienced difficulty in securing admission. (references)
Political Rights	Malaysia	The country's two private television stations also had virtually no impartial reporting on the opposition. (references)
	Turkey	The ECHR stated that the Ankara SSC was not an independent and impartial tribunal; that the applicant's rights to a fair trial had been violated because they were not given key information about charges and witnesses; and that the alleged membership in an organized gang had not been proved. (references)
Trade	Uk	In short, the UK financial market is world class, highly sophisticated and impartial. (references)
Worker Rights	Trinidad and Tobago	Most observers consider this court to be impartial; it consists of government, business, and labor representatives. (references)
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Speaker	Phrase(s)
Rush Limbaugh	Now, according to Stevens, the majority cast a pall over the credibility of judges, in this case state court judges as impartial guardians of the rule of law.
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Speaker	Term	Phrase(s)
John Adams	1797-1801	That, as a republic is the best of governments, so that particular arrangement of the powers of society, or, in other words, that form of government which is best contrived to secure an impartial and exact execution of the laws, is the best of republics.
James Monroe	1817-1825	With the movements in this hemisphere we are of necessity more immediately connected, and by causes which must be obvious to all enlightened and impartial observers.
John Quincy Adams	1825-1829	Were the demands of nations upon the justice of each other susceptible of adjudication by the sentence of an impartial tribunal, those to which I now refer would long since have been settled and adequate indemnity would have been obtained.
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"Impartial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 99.68% of the time. "Impartial" is used about 316 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	99.68%	315	16,262
Noun (proper)	0.32%	1	339,140
Total	100.00%	316	N/A

Expression using "impartial": impartial person. Additional references.
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Language		Translations for "impartial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i paanshëm (candid, dispassionate, equitable, even handed, fair, indifferent, neuter, unbiased, unprejudiced), i drejtë (candid, correct, direct, disinterested, downright, equitable, erect, even, fair, just, kosher, lank, regular, right, Square, stand up, straight, straightaway, true, upright, upstanding, virtuous, white). (various references)

Arabic		‏منصف (bisectrix, equitable, evenhanded, fair, fair-minded, just, justiciary, right, rightful), ‏موضوعي (documentary, dry, literal, nonpartisan, objective, objectivist, outer, thematic, topical), ‏نزيه (candid, disinterested, dispassionate, honest, in his right mind, nonpartisan), ‏غير متحيز (candid, colorless, colourless, detached, indifferent, just, unprejudiced), ‏عادل (amount, compensate, counteract, countervail, equal, equitable, even, even-minded, fair, just, neutralize, noble-descent, offset, reasonable, right, rightful, set off, unbiased). (various references)

Bulgarian		непредубеден (open minded, unbiased, unjaundiced, unprejudiced, wide), безпристрастен (clinical, detached, dispassionate, equitable, even, even handed, fair, immovable, impersonal, indifferent, judicial, non-partisan, objective, unbiased, unprejudiced). (various references)

Chinese		公平 (fair). (various references)

Czech		objektivní (detached, disinterested, objective, open minded, unbiased, unbiassed), nestranný (detached, disinterested, dispassionate, even handed, evenhanded, unbiased, unbiassed), nepředpojatý (unprejudiced). (various references)

Danish		unpartisk (neutral), neutral (neutral). (various references)

Dutch		neutraal (neutral, non-denominational, non-sectarian). (various references)

Esperanto		senpartia, neŭtrala (neutral). (various references)

Faeroese		uttanveltaður (neutral). (various references)

Finnish		tasapuolinen (balanced, fair, unbiased), puolueeton (disinterested, fair, neutral, unbiased, uncommitted). (various references)

French		neutre. (various references)

German		unparteiisch (disinterested, dispassionate, equitable, evenhanded, fairminded, impartially, neuter, non-partisan, uncolored, uncoloured, unprejudiced), vorurteilsfrei (enlightened), objektiv (detached, give an image of the object observed, lens, objective, objective containing one or more lenses which, objectively, unprejudiced, when directed optical systems towards an object). (various references)

Greek		αμερόληπτοσ (candid, detached, disinterested, judicial, objective, unbiased), αφατρίαστοσ (nonpatrisan). (various references)

Hebrew		לא � ושא פ� ים, אוביקטיבי (objective). (various references)

Hungarian		pártatlan (candid, equitable, even handed, evenhanded, even-handed, fair, judicial, judiciary, just, neutral), részrehajlás nélküli. (various references)

Indonesian		tak membedakan, jujur (honest, kosher, truth, upright), adil (equitable, fair, honest, just, right). (various references)

Italian		imparziale (disinterested, dispassionate, judicial, judiciary, unbiased, unconcerned), spassionato (dispassionate, unwarped). (various references)

Japanese Kanji		公平 (fairness, justice). (various references)

Japanese Katakana		�"うへい (armed warrior, arms, balance, engineer, fairness, justice, war). (various references)

Korean		중� �한. (various references)

Manx		neuvaiagh, neuchleaynit (even-handed, unattracted, unbeguiled), corrym (adequate, amends, candid, equal, equitable, equivalent, even, exact, flat, flat rate of pay, flush, justice, level, par, pregnant, revenge, satisfaction, tally, tantamount, treatment), cairagh (fair, just, justifiable, proper). (various references)

Norwegian		nøytral (neutral). (various references)

Papiamen		neutral (neutral). (various references)

Pig Latin		impartialay.(various references)

Polish		neutrala (neutral). (various references)

Portuguese		imparcial (candid, detached, dispatch, even, indifferent, just, Laos, neutral, unbiased, unprejudiced), neutro (indifferently, laodicean, neutral). (various references)

Romanian		imparţial (candid, detached, dispassionate, equal, even handed, fair-minded, free, impartially, unbiased, unbiassed, unprejudiced), obiectiv (aim, fair, impartially, object, object glass, objective, objectively, outer, unbiassed, unprejudiced), nepãrtinitor (even handed, fair, fair-minded, impartially, unbiased, unprejudiced, without fear or favor, without fear or favour), ferit fãrã prejudecãţi. (various references)

Russian		беспристрастный (above the battle, candid, detached, dispassionate, equitable, even handed, even-handed, neutral, non-partisan, objective, unbiased, unprejudiced). (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		nepristarasan (objective). (various references)

Spanish		imparcial (even handed, indifferent, open, open minded, unbiased, unprejudiced). (various references)

Swedish		opartisk (detached, dispassionate, even handed, fair, just, unbiased, unbiassed, uncommitted, unprejudiced). (various references)

Thai		ยุติธรรม (clean, equitable, even-handed, fair, honest, just, rightful). (various references)

Turkish		yansız (neutral, non committal), tarafsız (candid, clinical, colorless, colourless, crossbench, detached, disinterested, dispassionate, equitable, even handed, fair-minded, free from bias, judicial, neutral, non committal, non party, noncommittal, nonpartisan, non-partisan, nonparty, unbiased, unbiassed, uncolored, uncoloured, uncommitted, unprejudiced, unwarped), adil (equitable, even handed, fair, fair-minded, just, lawful, righteous, right-minded, scrupulous). (various references)

Ukranian		справедливий (equitable, even, even handed, just, right, righteous, rightful, veracious), безсторонній (candid, dispassionate, equitable, even handed, neutral, non-partisan, objective, unconcerned). (various references)

Vietnamese		vô tư (disinterested, even-handed, fair-minded, judicial, non-partisan, unprejudiced), không thiên vị (cross-bench, dispassionate, fair, fair-minded, sober), công bằng (equitable, even-handed, fair, fairly, fair-minded, rightful). (various references)

Welsh		diduedd (unbiased), amhleidiol, amhlaid. (various references)
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Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	aequa, aequae, aequi, aequis, aequo, aequum, aequusque, commune, communem, communes, communi, communibus. (various references)
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Derivations
	Words beginning with "impartial": impartialities, impartiality, impartially. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Impartial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: imartial, impatial, impertial, impratical. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "impartial" (pronounced i'mpÄ"rshul)
6	-p Ä" r sh u l	partial.
5	-Ä" r sh u l	Marshal, Marshall, martial.
3	-sh u l	antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, confidential, controversial, crucial, essential, experiential, facial, financial, glacial, inertial, infomercial, initial, interprovincial, interracial, judicial, jurisprudential, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonfinancial, nonracial, nonresidential, official, palatial, Paschal, potential, prejudicial, prenuptial, provincial, quintessential, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, uncontroversial, unofficial.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Direct Anagrams: primatial.
	Words within the letters "a-a-i-i-l-m-p-r-t"
	-1 letter: primatal.
	-2 letters: airmail, marital, martial, partial, tilapia.
	-3 letters: amrita, armpit, atrial, impair, impala, impart, lariat, latria, mitral, palmar, primal, ramtil, tamari.
	-4 letters: aalii, alarm, altar, apart, artal, atria, atrip, laari, lamia, limit, limpa, litai, malar, maria, milia, milpa, pilar, plait, praam, prima, primi, ratal, riata, talar, tamal, tapir, tiara, trail, tramp, trial.
	-5 letters: airt, alar, alit, alma, amia, amir, aria, aril, atap, atma, ilia, impi, lair, lama, lamp, lari, lati, liar, lima, limp, lipa, lira, liri, maar, mail, mair, malt, marl, mart, milt, miri, pail, pair, palm, para, part, pial, pili, pima, pita, plat, pram, prat, prim, raia, rail, rami, ramp, rapt, rial, tail, tala, tali, tamp, tapa, tarp, tipi, tirl, tram, trap, trim, trip.
	Words containing the letters "a-a-i-i-l-m-p-r-t"
	+2 letters: impartially, impractical, patrimonial.
	+3 letters: impartiality, imperatorial, paramilitary.
	+4 letters: comparability, impracticable, impracticably, impractically, particularism, paterfamilias, prismatically.
	+5 letters: impartialities, impracticality, operationalism, particularisms, patresfamilias, primatological, reimplantation.
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