fair-minded
See also: fairminded
English
editEtymology
editFrom fair (“equitable, just”) + minded (“having a mind (inclination) for something or a certain way of thinking about things”).[1]
Pronunciation
edit- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ˌfɛːˈmaɪndɪd/, /ˈfɛːˌmaɪndɪd/
Audio (Southern England): (file) - (General American) IPA(key): /ˌfɛ(ə)ɹˈmaɪndɪd/, /ˈfɛ(ə)ɹˌmaɪndɪd/
- Hyphenation: fair-mind‧ed
Adjective
editfair-minded (comparative more fair-minded, superlative most fair-minded)
- Impartial and unbiased.
- 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.
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References
edit- ^ “fair-minded, adj.”, in OED Online
, Oxford, Oxfordshire: Oxford University Press, December 2013; “fair-minded, adj.”, in Lexico, Dictionary.com; Oxford University Press, 2019–2022.
