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fair

 
Adjective fair has 12 senses
  1. fair, just - 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"
    Antonyms: unfair, unjust, below the belt, cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, raw
  2. impartial, fair - showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"
  3. fair - more than adequate in quality; "fair work"
    Antonym:
    unrespectable (indirect, via respectable)
  4. fair, fairish, reasonable - not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
    Antonym: immoderate (indirect, via moderate)
  5. fair, sightly - visually appealing; "our fair city"
    Antonym: ugly (indirect, via beautiful)
  6. bonny, bonnie, comely, fair - very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
    Antonym: ugly (indirect, via beautiful)
  7. fair - (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines; "he hit a fair ball over the third base bag"
    Antonyms:
    foul, out-of-bounds
  8. average, fair, mediocre, middling - of no 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"
    Antonym: extraordinary (indirect, via ordinary)
  9. fair - attractively feminine; "the fair sex"
    Antonym:
    masculine (indirect, via feminine)
  10. clean, fair - (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
    Antonym: illegible (indirect, via legible)
  11. fair - free of clouds or rain; "today will be fair and warm"
    Antonym:
    cloudy (indirect, via clear)
  12. fair, fairish - (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion";
    Antonyms: brunet, brunette (indirect, via blond)
Adverbial fair has 2 senses
  1. fairly, fair, clean - in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"
  2. fairly, fair, without favoring one party, without favouring one party, evenhandedly - in a fair evenhanded manner; "deal fairly with one another"
Noun fair has 4 senses
  1. carnival, fair, funfair - a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
    --1 is a kind of show
    --1 has parts: midway
  2. fair - gathering of producers to promote business; "world fair"; "trade fair"; "book fair"
    --2 is a kind of
    gathering, assemblage
    --2 has particulars: book fair, bookfair
  3. fair - a competitive exhibition of farm products; "she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair"
    --3 is a kind of
    exhibition, exposition, expo
  4. bazaar, fair - a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
    --4 is a kind of sale, cut-rate sale, sales event
    --4 has particulars: book fair, bookfair; craft fair
Verb fair has 1 sense
  1. fair - join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly
    --1 is one way to
    join, bring together
    Sample sentence:
    Somebody ----s something
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