fair-minded

See also: fairminded

English

WOTD – 20 February 2021

Etymology

From fair (“equitable, just”) +‎ minded (“having a mind (inclination) for something or a certain way of thinking about things”).

Pronunciation

• (Received Pronunciation) IPA^(key): /ˌfɛːˈmaɪndɪd/, /ˈfɛːˌmaɪndɪd/
• (GA) IPA^(key): /ˌfɛ(ə)ɹˈmaɪndɪd/, /ˈfɛ(ə)ɹˌmaɪndɪd/
• Hyphenation: fair-mind‧ed

Adjective

fair-minded (comparative more fair-minded, superlative most fair-minded)

1. Impartial and unbiased.

   Synonyms: fair, just

   • 1922 June, F[rancis] Scott Fitzgerald, “The Diamond as Big as the Ritz”, in Tales of the Jazz Age, New York, N.Y.: Charles Scribner’s Sons, published September 1922, →OCLC, part VI, page 167:

     "You pretend to be a fair-minded man." / "How absurd. How could a man of my position be fair-minded toward you? You might as well speak of a Spaniard being fair-minded toward a piece of steak."

   • 1943, Walter R[ollin] Brooks, Freddy and the Bean Home News, New York, N.Y.: Alfred A[braham] Knopf, →OCLC:

     I am not a fair-minded woman. It is simply that I dislike being indebted to a—to a pig.

   • 1961 March, “Talking of Trains: That Royal Train failure”, in Trains Illustrated, London: Ian Allan Publishing, →ISSN, →OCLC, page 135:

     In these circumstances any fair-minded observer must regard the mishap as a stroke of sheer ill-luck.

Alternative forms

• fairminded

Derived terms

• fair-mindedly, fairmindedly
• fair-mindedness, fairmindedness

Translations

impartial and unbiased — see also impartial,‎ unbiased

• Bulgarian: безпристрастен (bg) (bezpristrasten), справедлив (bg) (spravedliv)
• Chinese:

  Mandarin: 公正的 (gōngzhèngde), 無偏見的／无偏见的 (wúpiānjiànde)

• Estonian: õiglane (et)
• Finnish: oikeudenmukainen (fi), tasapuolinen (fi)
• Georgian: სამართლიანი (samartliani)
• Macedonian: правдољубив (pravdoljubiv)
• Manx: neuchleaynt
• Russian: беспристрастный (ru) (bespristrastnyj), непредубеждённый (ru) (nepredubeždjónnyj)., справедливый (ru) (spravedlivyj)
• Scottish Gaelic: neo-chlaon
• Serbo-Croatian: nepristran (sh) m, nepristrasan m
• Vietnamese: công bằng (vi), vô tư (vi)