impartial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French impartial. See im- +‎ partial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɑɹ.ʃəl/

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• Rhymes: -ɑː(ɹ)ʃəl

Adjective

impartial (comparative more impartial, superlative most impartial)

1. treating all parties, rivals, or disputants equally; not partial; not biased

   Synonyms: neutral, unbiased, fair; see also Thesaurus:impartial

   Antonyms: partial, biased, unfair

   • 1621 November 13 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Sanderson, “[Ad Populum.] The Fourth Sermon. In St. Pauls Church London. 4. Nov. 1621.”, in XXXIV Sermons. […], 5th edition, London: […] [A. Clark] for A. Seil, and are to be sold by G. Sawbridge, […], published 1671, →OCLC, paragraph 37, page 208:

     [W]e are to take a ſecond ſurvievv of our Abilities, to ſee if they be confidently fit for that vvhereto our inclination ſvvayeth us: and if upon due impartial examination vve find they are, vve may then follovv the ſvvay of our inclinations.

Derived terms

• impartialism
• impartialist
• impartiality
• impartially
• impartialness
• nonimpartial
• pseudoimpartial
• unimpartial

Translations

treating all parties, rivals or disputants equally

Armenian: անկողմնակալ (hy) (ankoġmnakal) Belarusian: бесстаро́нні (bjesstarónni), непрадузя́ты (njepraduzjáty) Bulgarian: безпристрастен (bg) (bezpristrasten), непредубеден (bg) (nepredubeden) Catalan: imparcial (ca) Chinese: Mandarin: 公正 (zh) (gōngzhèng); 公平 (zh) (gōngpíng); 不偏不倚的 (zh) (bùpiānbùyǐ de) Czech: nestranný (cs) m Danish: upartisk Dutch: onpartijdig (nl) Estonian: erapooletu Finnish: tasapuolinen (fi), reilu (fi) French: impartial (fr) Galician: imparcial German: unparteiisch (de), unparteilich (de) Greek: αμερόληπτος (el) (ameróliptos) Ancient Greek: ἀδέκαστος (adékastos) Hindi: तटस्थ (hi) m (taṭasth) Hungarian: pártatlan (hu), elfogulatlan (hu) Italian: imparziale (it) Macedonian: непристрасен (nepristrasen) Malayalam: നിഷ്പക്ഷ (ml) (niṣpakṣa) Manx: neuvaiagh Maori: tōkeke, ngākau tapatahi Norwegian: upartisk, objektiv (no) Persian: حقگو (haqgu) Polish: bezstronny (pl) Portuguese: imparcial (pt) Romanian: imparțial (ro), nepărtinitor (ro) m Russian: беспристра́стный (ru) (bespristrástnyj), непредвзя́тый (ru) (nepredvzjátyj), непредубеждённый (ru) (nepredubeždjónnyj) Sanskrit: मध्यस्थ (sa) (madhyastha) Scottish Gaelic: cothromach, neo-chlaon Spanish: imparcial (es) Swedish: opartisk (sv) Turkish: adil (tr), tarafsız (tr), yansız (tr) Ukrainian: безсторо́нній (uk) (bezstorónnij), неупере́джений (neuperédženyj) Welsh: diragfarn (cy)

Anagrams

• primatial

French

Etymology

From im- +‎ partial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɛ̃.paʁ.sjal/

Adjective

impartial (feminine impartiale, masculine plural impartiaux, feminine plural impartiales)

1. impartial

Derived terms

• impartialement
• impartialité

Further reading

• “impartial”, in Trésor de la langue française informatisé [Digitized Treasury of the French Language], 2012.