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impartial.

Adjective
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MEANING

Not favoring one side or person unfairly when making a judgment.

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  • impartial assessment
  • impartial observer

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An impartial assessment considered the evidence against both accounts.

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impartial

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Primary category: academic / formal. Forms: Comparative more impartial; superlative most impartial when comparison is meaningful. Legacy lexical fields mirror sense 1 only. Use numbered sense fields for all meanings. Established modern English lexical item. No separate regional spelling or grammatical inflection entry. Writing functions: analysis, evaluation, qualification. Commonness: moderately common.

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