biased

English

Alternative forms

• biassed (UK)

Etymology

From bias +‎ -ed.

Pronunciation

• (US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəst/

• Audio (US):

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• Rhymes: -aɪəst

Adjective

biased (comparative more biased, superlative most biased)

1. Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.

   Synonyms: partial, prejudiced, tendentious

   The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.

   Obviously I'm biased, but…

2. Having outcomes with unequal probabilities; weighted.

   a biased coin

3. Angled at a slant.

   The table had a biased edge.

4. (electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is applied.
5. (statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.

Derived terms

• biasedly
• biasedness
• debiased
• equibiased
• nonbiased
• overbiased
• unbiased

Translations

exhibiting bias; prejudiced

Afrikaans: bevooroordeeld Arabic: مُتَحَيِّز (mutaḥayyiz) Belarusian: прадузя́ты (praduzjáty), упярэ́джаны (upjarédžany), старо́нны (starónny), небесстаро́нні (njebjesstarónni) Bulgarian: предубеде́н (bg) (predubedén), пристра́стен (bg) (pristrásten) Catalan: esbiaixat (ca), tendenciós, parcial (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 有偏心的 (yǒu piānxīn de), 懷偏見的 / 怀偏见的 (huái piānjiàn de) Czech: zaujatý m, neobjektivní, tendenční, předpojatý Danish: tilbøjelig, partisk Dutch: partijdig (nl) Esperanto: tendenca Finnish: väritetty (fi), vääristynyt (fi), puolueellinen (fi) French: partial (fr), qui n'est pas impartial, qui a du parti pris German: parteiisch (de), voreingenommen (de), tendenziös (de), befangen (de) Hindi: पक्षपाती (hi) (pakṣapātī) Hungarian: részrehajló (hu), elfogult (hu) Irish: laofa, claonta, leataobhach Italian: parziale (it), pregiudizievole (it), tendenzioso (it), prevenuto (it) Macedonian: при́страсен (prístrasen) Maori: ngākaukino, rītaha Persian: جانب‌دارانه (jâneb-dârâne) Polish: stronniczy (pl), uprzedzony Portuguese: tendencioso (pt) Romanian: părtinitor (ro) m Russian: пристра́стный (ru) (pristrástnyj), предубеждённый (ru) (predubeždjónnyj) Slovak: zaujatý Slovene: pristrasan Spanish: sesgado (es), parcial (es), tendencioso (es) Swedish: partisk (sv), snedvriden (sv), jävig (sv) Ukrainian: упере́джений (uperédženyj), необ'єкти́вний (neobʺjektývnyj) Vietnamese: thiên vị (vi) Welsh: rhagfarnllyd (cy) Yiddish: צדדימדיק (tsdodimdik), פּניותדיק (pniesdik), פּאַרטיייִש (parteyish), אײַנזײַטיק (aynzaytik)

angled at a slant

Chinese: Mandarin: please add this translation if you can Finnish: vino (fi), kalteva (fi) German: geneigt (de), gekippt (de) Italian: obliquo (it), inclinato (it) Maori: haukume (referring to statistics), rītaha Portuguese: oblíquo (pt), enviesado (pt) Russian: отклонённый (otklonjónnyj), смещённый (ru) (smeščónnyj) Spanish: oblicuo (es), inclinado (es), en declive, ladeado (es), sesgado (es)

of statistics - showing an imbalance of a result

Arabic: مُتَحَيِّز (mutaḥayyiz) Czech: zkreslený (cs) Italian: distorto (it) Maori: haukume

Verb

biased

1. simple past and past participle of bias

   She biased them against him for no apparent reason.

Anagrams

• Abedis, abides, Badies, debias, de-bias, Baides