impartial

English

Etymology

Borrowed from Middle French impartial. See im- ‎ partial.

Pronunciation

• IPA^(key): /ɪmˈpɑɹ.ʃəl/

• Audio (Southern England):

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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 (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

• impartialist
• impartiality
• impartially

 

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)
• 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)

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• Chinese:

  Mandarin: ^{(please verify)} 公正的; ^{(please verify)} 公平的; ^{(please verify)} 不偏不倚的; ^{(please verify)} 中立的

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.