Definition of 'fair'
Noun
- a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
Synonyms: carnival funfair - gathering of producers to promote business; "world fair"; "trade fair"; "book fair"
- a competitive exhibition of farm products; "she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair"
- a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
Synonyms: bazaar
Verb
- join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly
Adjective
- free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
Synonyms: just
Antonyms: unfair unjust - showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"
Synonyms: impartial
Antonyms: partial unfair - not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
Synonyms: fairish reasonable - very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
Synonyms: bonny bonnie comely sightly - (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines; "he hit a fair ball over the third base bag"
Antonyms: foul - lacking exceptional quality or ability; "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
Synonyms: average mediocre middling - attractively feminine; "the fair sex"
- (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
Synonyms: clean - free of clouds or rain; "today will be fair and warm"
- (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion";
Synonyms: fairish
Adverb
- in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"
Synonyms: fairly clean
Antonyms: unfairly below the belt - without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner; "deal fairly with one another"
Synonyms: fairly evenhandedly
