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Definition: Biased |
BiasedAdjective1. Favoring one person or side over another; "a biased account of the trial"; "a decision that was partial to the defendant". 2. Excessively devoted to one faction. Source: WordNet 1.7.1 Copyright © 2001 by Princeton University. All rights reserved. |
Date "biased" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1258. (references) |
Synonyms: BiasedSynonyms: colored (adj), coloured (adj), one-sided (adj), slanted (adj). (additional references) |
| Context | Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus). |
Inequality | Adjective: unequal, uneven, disparate, partial; unbalanced, overbalanced; top-heavy, lopsided, biased, skewed; disquiparant. |
| Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus. | |
Crosswords: Biased |
| English words defined with "biased": angle ♦ bias, bowls ♦ colored, coloured, coverage ♦ discriminatory ♦ hence ♦ illiberally, intolerantly ♦ one-sided ♦ predetermine, Prejudicant, Prejudicate, prejudiced ♦ reportage, reporting ♦ slant, slanted ♦ thence, therefore, thus ♦ Unwarped ♦ whitewash. (references) |
| Specialty definitions using "biased": alpha-parameter, associated gain ♦ base leakage current ♦ common-base current gain, common-emitter current gain, compensating error ♦ Ebers-Moll collector leakage current, Ebers-Moll leakage current, electro-luminescent diode ♦ forward current gain ♦ junction field-effect transistor, junction-gate field-effect transistor ♦ leakage current, light-emission diode ♦ Nonsampling error ♦ off-state collector leakage current ♦ SPECmark ♦ Transport Layer Interface. (references) |
| Etymologies containing "biased": unbiased. (references) |
| Domain | Title |
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| Author | Quotation |
Karl Menninger | The voice of intelligence ... is drowned out by the roar of fear. It is ignored by the voice of desire. It is contradicted by the voice of shame. It is biased by hate and extinguished by anger. Most of all it is silenced by ignorance. |
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| Subject | Topic | Quote |
Health | Their views, therefore, may be biased. (references) | |
Presenting both the risks and benefits of anabolic steroid use is more effective in convincing adolescents about steroids' negative effects, apparently because the students find a balanced approach more credible and less biased, according to the researchers. (references) | ||
Business | Generally, aircraft maintenance firms are biased towards buying repair and testing equipment that is closely associated with the original manufacturer. (references) | |
Children | Czech Republic | The Ministry of Education later took steps independently to implement some of the recommended changes; for example, the Ministry of Education is working on changes to the psychological exam given to Czech children that many claim is culturally biased against Romani children. (references) |
Civil Liberties | Kenya | KBC news coverage remains biased in favor of KANU and President Moi. (references) |
Malaysia | News on the opposition is restricted tightly and reported in a biased fashion. (references) | |
Economic History | Haiti | The Embassy has received allegations of biased treatment of foreign investors or corporations by the Haitian courts. (references) |
Netherlands | Dutch exports are biased towards recession-resistant food and agricultural products and semi-finished products, notably chemicals. (references) | |
Slovakia | In the run-up to elections in October 1998, Meciar's government was accused of thwarting democratic principles and imposing a biased election law. (references) | |
Human Rights | Moldova | They were convicted of murder in 1993 in a trial that international human rights groups considered biased and unfair. (references) |
Cambodia | The composition of both of these bodies is viewed widely as biased toward the CPP. There is a separate military court system. (references) | |
Burundi | Most citizens assume that the courts promote the interests of the dominant Tutsi minority; members of the Hutu majority believe that the judicial system is biased against them. (references) | |
Minorities | India | The local media, however, frequently is biased against minorities in Maharashtra, and continued to report that the Pardhi community burned its own dwellings to qualify for government compensation. (references) |
Moldova | One example was an article in the National Journal on April 10 entitled "Sects in Moldova Recruit Followers by Promising Them Everything, After Which they Separate Them from God Forever." Several representatives of religious groups complained that this article was biased, especially in the way that it focused on the less mainstream groups. (references) | |
Political Economy | Moldova | Prison conditions in Transnistria remained harsh, and three ethnic Moldovans, members of the Iliascu group, remained in prison despite charges by international groups that their trials were biased and unfair. (references) |
Political Rights | Macedonia | However, minorities maintained that political structures continued to be biased against them. (references) |
Kyrgyz Republic | Campaign restrictions and biased media failed to ensure free and fair conditions for candidates. (references) | |
Russia | Many observers pointed to problems with biased media coverage of the presidential election campaign. (references) | |
Women | Pakistan | Police are reluctant to take the complaint and sometimes are abusive toward the victim; the courts do not have consistent standards of proof as to what constitutes rape and what corroboration is required; and judges, police, and prosecutors are biased against female rape victims, tending towards a presumption of female consent and the belief that women lie about such things. (references) |
Worker Rights | Bahamas | Some employers complain that the industrial tribunal is biased unfairly in favor of employees. (references) |
Peru | Employers deny that they are biased against unions, and argue that the labor stability provisions of the legislation have made long-term commitments to workers too expensive. (references) | |
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits. | ||
| "Biased" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 70.07% of the time. "Biased" is used about 304 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) | 70.07% | 213 | 20,749 |
| Lexical Verb (past participle) | 29.93% | 91 | 34,491 |
| Total | 100.00% | 304 | N/A |
Source: compiled by the editor from several corpora; see credits.
Expressions using "biased": be biased ♦ be biased against ♦ be biased in favour of ♦ biased against. Additional references. | |
| Hypenated Usage | |
Ending with "biased": class-biased, gender-biased, male-biased. | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| The following statistics estimate the number of searches per day across the major English-language search engines as identified by various trade publications. Hyperlinks lead to commercial use of the expression at Amazon.com. |
| Expression | Frequency per Day |
biased | 4 |
bbc biased | 2 |
biased book child | 2 |
biased media | 2 |
biased fox news | 2 |
biased words | 2 |
biased iraq non view war | 2 |
biased culturally iq test | 2 |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various references; see credits. | |
| Language | Translations for "biased"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses. | |
Albanian | i anshëm (biassed, partial). (various references) | |
Arabic | موروب (awry, thwart), مغرض (one sided, partial, prejudiced, tendentious, unfair). (various references) | |
Bulgarian | диагонален (biassed, diagonal). (various references) | |
Chinese | 偏心 (Bias, Biases, Biasing). (various references) | |
Czech | zaujatý proti èemu (biassed), předpojatý (biassed, prejudicial). (various references) | |
Danish | tendentiøs (tendencious, tendentious), med systematisk fejl. (various references) | |
Dutch | tendentieus (tendencious, tendentious), partijdig, partýdig (partial), met systematische fout, eenzijdig (unilateral), eenzýdig (partial, unilateral). (various references) | |
Esperanto | tendenca (tendencious, tendentious), partia (partial). (various references) | |
Finnish | puolueellinen (partial, prejudiced), harhainen. (various references) | |
French | biaisé, qui n'est pas objectif, déformé, avec biais. (various references) | |
German | voreingenommen (partial, prejudiced), parteiisch (one sided, partial, partially, partisan). (various references) | |
Greek | προκατειλημμένος (prejudiced). (various references) | |
Hungarian | ferde (aslope, awry, beveled, bias, biassed, cant, cock eyed, cockeyed, cross, leaning, oblique, out of the straigh, perverse, sideling, sidelong, skew, slant, slanting, splay), elfogult (biassed, one-sided, partial, prejudiced, self-conscious). (various references) | |
Italian | prevenuto (forfends), parziale (part, Parthian, partial, partly), affetto da errore sistematico. (various references) | |
Japanese Kanji | 偏 (inclining, inclining toward, left radical of a character, side). (various references) | |
Japanese Katakana | へ" (area, book, change, compilation, completed poem, disturbance, eccentric, editing, flat, funny, incident, inclining, inclining toward, left radical of a character, odd, part of book, peculiar, queer, side, strange, suspicious-looking, vicinity). (various references) | |
Korean | 치우치". (various references) | |
Manx | slentagh, cleaynit (addicted, coaxed, corrupted, distorted, induced, partial), baighagh. (various references) | |
Pig Latin | iasedbay.(various references) | |
Portuguese | tendencioso (colored, coloured, tendencious, tendentious), parcial (cammed, colored, coloured, discriminatory, half, lopsided, one-sided, Parthian, partial, tendentious, unfair), inclinado (apt, aslope, atilt, bent, canted, declivous, downhill, inclinable, incumbent, leaning, minded, oblique, pendulous, prone, ready, slanting, sloping, superabundant), enviesado (canted, oblique, skew, slanting). (various references) | |
Russian | пристрастный (biassed, discriminatory, inequitable, jug-handled, one sided). (various references) | |
Serbo-Croatian | pristrasan (biassed, one sided, partial, partial to). (various references) | |
Spanish | sesgado (aslant, slanted, slanting). (various references) | |
Swedish | partisk (interested, jug-handled, partial, warped). (various references) | |
Thai | ที่ซึ่งลำเอียง. (various references) | |
Turkish | taraflı (biassed, colored, coloured, interested, one sided, one way, partial, prejudiced, sided, tendentious, unfair, warped), peşin hükümlü (biassed, prejudiced), etki altında kalmış (affected, biassed, colored, coloured, prejudiced), önyargılı (biassed, dyed in the wool, jaundiced, prejudiced, prejudicial, unenlightened). (various references) | |
Ukrainian | упереджений (inequitable, interested, partial, preconceived, predetermined). (various references) | |
Welsh | parti%ol (partial, partisan). (various references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references. | ||
Derivations | |
Words beginning with "biased": biasedly. (additional references) | |
Words ending with "biased": misbiased, unbiased. (additional references) | |
Words containing "biased": unbiasedness, unbiasednesses. (additional references) | |
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"Biased" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: bagasse, baise, Baiser, baissez, Bayazid, bease, biace, biase, Biasi, Biasia, biassed, biave, biazed, Bijser, Biospec, bipacked, bisazir, bised, biseed, brased, brassed, buase, kinased. (additional references) | |
| Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references). | |
| # of Phoneme Matches | Pronunciation | Word(s) rhyming with "biased" (pronounced bī"ust) |
| 5 | b ī" u s t | unbiased. |
| 4 | -ī" u s t | driest, highest. |
| 3 | -u s t | agonist, agriculturalist, agronomist, alarmist, alchemist, allergist, amethyst, amorist, analyst, anarchist, anatomist, anesthesiologist, anesthetist, angriest, animist, antagonist, anthropologist, anticommunist, apologist, apprenticed, aquarist, archaeologist, archivist, arsonist, absolutist, accompanist, ablest, abolitionist, abortionist, activist, artist, atheist, August, ballast, balloonist, barest, behaviorist, bicyclist, biggest, biochemist, biologist, bitterest, blackest, bleakest, bloodiest, bluest, bluntest, boldest, botanist, bravest, breakfast, briefest, brightest, broadest, busiest, buttressed, calloused, canoeist, canvassed, capitalist, cardiologist, caricaturist, cartoonist, catalyst, cellist, chauvinist, cheapest, choicest, clarinetist, classicist, cleanest, closest, coldest, colonialist, colonist, columnist, communist, conservationist, contortionist, conversationalist, coolest, cornettist, craziest, creamiest, criminologist, cruelest, cultist, cyclist, darkest, hygienist, idealist, ideologist, illusionist, immunologist, imperialist, impressionist, deadliest, dearest, deepest, deforest, deist, densest, dentist, dermatologist, determinist, direst, dirtiest, dishonest, disinterest, druggist, dullest, dumbest, earliest, earnest, easiest, ecologist, economist, editorialist, eldest, elitist, embarrassed, empiricist, encompassed, encyclopedist, endocrinologist, entomologist, environmentalist, epidemiologist, ethicist, ethnomusicologist, exhibitionist, exorcist, expressionist, extremist, faintest, fairest, fanciest, farthest, fascist, fastest, fattest, federalist, feminist, fetishist, fewest, fiercest, finalist, finest, firmest, fittest, flimsiest, florist, focused, focussed, foggiest, fondest, forest, formalist, freest, freshest, friendliest, fullest, fundamentalist, funnest, funniest, furthest, generalist, geneticist, gentlest, geologist, gerontologist, goldest, grandest, gravest, grayest, greatest, greediest, greenest, grimaced, grimmest, grooviest, guitarist, gymnast, gynecologist, happiest, hardest, harnessed, harshest, harvest, healthiest, heaviest, heftiest, herbalist, hippest, hobbyist, holiest, honest, hottest, hugest, humblest, humorist, individualist, industrialist, institutionalist, instrumentalist, interest, internationalist, internist, interventionist, isolationist, jaundiced, journalist, juiciest, junkiest, keenest, kindest, kremlinologist, largest, latest, laziest, leanest, leftist, librettist, lightest, likeliest, linguist, littlest, liveliest, lobbyist, locust, longest, loudest, lowest, loyalist, luckiest, lyricist, machinist, manicurist, mannerist, masochist, materialist, meanest, medalist, mercantilist, merest, meteorologist, methodist, microbiologist, mightiest, mildest, mineralogist, misogynist, modernist, modest, monopolist, motorcyclist, motorist, musicologist, narrowest, nastiest, nationalist, naturalist, nearest, neatest, neediest, neurologist, neuroscientist, neutralist, newest, noblest, noisiest, noncommunist, nonconformist, noninterest, noticed, novelist, nutritionist, oboist, obstructionist, oddest, oldest, oncologist, ophthalmologist, opportunist, organist, orthodontist, orthopedist, pacifist, paleontologist, palest, panelist, pathologist, pessimist, pharmacist, philanthropist, photojournalist, physiologist, pianist, polemicist, poorest, populist, prefaced, prejudiced, premised, preservationist, prettiest, priciest, promised, propagandist, protagonist, protectionist, proudest, psychiatrist, psychoanalyst, psychologist, psychotherapist, purchased, purest, quickest, quietest, quietist, racist, radiologist, rainforest, rainiest, rapist, rarest, receptionist, reddest, refocused, reforest, remotest, repurchased, reservationist, reservist, resurfaced, revolutionist, rheumatologist, richest, rightist, riskiest, ritziest, roughest, rudest, saddest, sadist, safest, satirist, savviest, scariest, scientist, secessionist, secularist, segregationist, seismologist, semifinalist, separatist, serologist, serviced, severest, sexiest, shakiest, sharpest, shortest, showiest, shrewdest, sickest, silliest, simplest, skimpiest, skinniest, sleekest, slickest, slightest, slimmest, sloppiest, slowest, smallest, smartest, smoggiest, smoothest, socialist, sociologist, softest, soonest, soundest, specialist, spiritualist, stablest, staunchest, steepest, sternest, stickiest, stiffest, stormiest, strangest, strategist, strictest, strongest, stupidest, supremacist, surest, surfaced, survivalist, sweetest, swiftest, tallest, tannest, technologist, televangelist, tempest, terraced, theorist, therapist, thickest, thinnest, thorniest, tightest, tiniest, toniest, toughest, tourist, toxicologist, traditionalist, trendiest, trickiest, truest, ugliest, ultranationalist, unfocused, unionist, unkindest, unnoticed, urologist, violinist, violist, virologist, vocalist, warmest, weakest, wealthiest, weirdest, wettest, whitest, widest, wildest, wisest, witnessed, worthiest, yellowest, youngest, zaniest, zoologist. |
Source: compiled by the editor (additional references); see credits. | ||
Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams | |
Direct Anagrams: abides. | |
| Words within the letters "a-b-d-e-i-s" | |
-1 letter: abide, aides, aside, based, beads, bides, ideas, sabed. | |
-2 letters: abed, aide, aids, bade, bads, base, bead, beds, bias, bide, bids, bise, dabs, dais, debs, dibs, dies, idea, ides, isba, sabe, sade, sadi, said, side. | |
-3 letters: abs, ads, aid, ais, bad, bas, bed, bid, bis, dab, deb, dib, die, dis, eds, ids, sab, sad. | |
| Words containing the letters "a-b-d-e-i-s" | |
+1 letter: abiders, baddies, baldies, bandies, basined, bawdies, biassed, braised, darbies, diabase, disable, seabird, sidebar, subidea. | |
+2 letters: abridges, abscised, abseiled, ascribed, audibles, backside, banished, bankside, baptised, basified, bawdiest, bawdries, beadiest, beadings, bedrails, bedsonia, beladies, biasedly, bigheads, braiders, brandies, brigades, carbides, daubiest, daubries, debasing, diabases, diabetes, diebacks, disabled, disables, disabuse, pedicabs, piebalds, redbaits, seabirds, semibald, sideband, sidebars, slidable, subideas, tribades, unbiased. | |
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