MEANING
Not favoring one side or person unfairly when making a judgment.
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Words that belong together
- impartial assessment
- impartial observer
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An impartial assessment considered the evidence against both accounts.
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- Base
- impartial
Usage notes
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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