Contents
- 1 English
- 1.1 Etymology
- 1.2 Pronunciation
- 1.3 Adjective
- 1.3.1 Derived terms
- 1.3.2 Translations
- 1.3.3 See also
- 1.4 Verb
- 1.5 Anagrams
- 2 German
- 2.1 Etymology
- 2.2 Pronunciation
- 2.3 Adjective
- 2.3.1 Declension
- 2.4 Further reading
English[edit]
Etymology[edit]
From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair.
Pronunciation[edit]
- (Received Pronunciation) IPA(key): /ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/, [ɐnˈfɛə(ɹ)], /ʌnˈfɛː(ɹ)/, [ɐnˈfɛː(ɹ)]
- (General American) IPA(key): /ʌnˈfɛɚ/
Audio (US) (file) - Rhymes: -ɛə(ɹ)
Adjective[edit]
unfair (comparative unfairer, superlative unfairest)
- not fair, unjust
2012 March-April, John T. Jost, “Social Justice: Is It in Our Nature (and Our Future)?”, in American Scientist[1], volume 100, number 2, archived from the original on 21 June 2017, page 162:
He draws eclectically on studies of baboons, descriptive anthropological accounts of hunter-gatherer societies and, in a few cases, the fossil record. With this biological framework in place, Corning endeavors to show that the capitalist system as currently practiced in the United States and elsewhere is manifestly unfair.
2022 January 12, “Network News: Further extension to Transport for London emergency funding”, in RAIL, number 948, page 8:
Khan countered this by alleging that 'unfair' conditions, such as raising council tax, are being attached to any new funding deal that would "punish Londoners" for the effect the pandemic has had on passenger numbers. He added: "These short-term deals are trapping TfL on life support rather than putting it on the path to long-term sustainability."
- (rare or archaic) not beautiful; uncomely; unattractive
- (archaic or obsolete) sorrowful; sad
- (archaic) unseemly; disgraceful
Derived terms[edit]
Translations[edit]
not fair
- Armenian: անարդար(hy) (anardar)
- Belarusian: несправядлі́вы (njespravjadlívy)
- Bulgarian: несправедли́в(bg) (nespravedlív)
- Catalan: injust
- Chinese:
- Czech: nespravedlivý(cs)
- Danish: uretfærdig, ufin
- Esperanto: maljusta
- Finnish: epäreilu(fi)
- French: injuste(fr), déloyal(fr)
- Georgian: please add this translation if you can
- German: unfair(de), ungerecht(de)
- Hungarian: méltánytalan(hu), igazságtalan(hu)
- Icelandic: ósanngjarnm
- Italian: scorretto(it)m, sleale(it), ingiusto(it)
- Japanese: 不公平(ja) (ふこうへい, f*ckōhei)
- Khmer: មិនយុត្តិធម៌ (mɨn-yuttethɔə)
- Korean: 불공평하다 (bulgongpyeonghada)
- Latin: inīquus
- Luxembourgish: onfair
- Macedonian: нечесен (nečesen)
- Maori: makihuhunu
- Mongolian: please add this translation if you can
- Norwegian:
- Bokmål: urettferdig(no)
- Nynorsk: urettferdig
- Old English: unrihtwīs
- Polish: nieuczciwy(pl), niesprawiedliwy(pl)
- Portuguese: injusto(pt)
- Russian: несправедли́вый(ru) (nespravedlívyj)
- Serbo-Croatian:
- Cyrillic: неправичан
- Roman: nepravičan(sh)
- Slovak: nespravodlivý
- Spanish: injusto(es)
- Swedish: orättvis(sv)
- Thai: please add this translation if you can
- Ukrainian: несправедли́вий (nespravedlývyj)
- Vietnamese: bất công(vi)
See also[edit]
Verb[edit]
unfair (third-person singular simple present unfairs, present participle unfairing, simple past and past participle unfaired)
- (transitive, obsolete) to make ugly
- Synonym: devenustate
1609, William Shakespeare, “Sonnet 5”, in Shake-speares Sonnets.[…], London: By G[eorge] Eld for T[homas] T[horpe] and are to be sold by William Aspley, →OCLC:
Those hours that with gentle work did frame / The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell / Will play the tyrants to the very same / And that unfair which fairly doth excel.
Anagrams[edit]
German[edit]
Etymology[edit]
Pronunciation[edit]
- IPA(key): /ˈʊnˌfɛːr/, [ˈʔʊn-], [ˈʔʊɱ-], [-ˌfɛːɐ̯], [-ˌfeːɐ̯], [-ˌfɛɐ̯]
Audio (file) - Hyphenation: un‧fair
Adjective[edit]
unfair (strong nominative masculine singular unfairer, comparative unfairer, superlative am unfairsten)
Declension[edit]
Positive forms of unfair
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist unfair | sie ist unfair | es ist unfair | sie sind unfair | |
strong declension (without article) | nominative | unfairer | unfaire | unfaires | unfaire |
genitive | unfairen | unfairer | unfairen | unfairer | |
dative | unfairem | unfairer | unfairem | unfairen | |
accusative | unfairen | unfaire | unfaires | unfaire | |
weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der unfaire | die unfaire | das unfaire | die unfairen |
genitive | des unfairen | der unfairen | des unfairen | der unfairen | |
dative | dem unfairen | der unfairen | dem unfairen | den unfairen | |
accusative | den unfairen | die unfaire | das unfaire | die unfairen | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein unfairer | eine unfaire | ein unfaires | (keine) unfairen |
genitive | eines unfairen | einer unfairen | eines unfairen | (keiner) unfairen | |
dative | einem unfairen | einer unfairen | einem unfairen | (keinen) unfairen | |
accusative | einen unfairen | eine unfaire | ein unfaires | (keine) unfairen |
Comparative forms of unfair
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist unfairer | sie ist unfairer | es ist unfairer | sie sind unfairer | |
strong declension (without article) | nominative | unfairerer | unfairere | unfaireres | unfairere |
genitive | unfaireren | unfairerer | unfaireren | unfairerer | |
dative | unfairerem | unfairerer | unfairerem | unfaireren | |
accusative | unfaireren | unfairere | unfaireres | unfairere | |
weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der unfairere | die unfairere | das unfairere | die unfaireren |
genitive | des unfaireren | der unfaireren | des unfaireren | der unfaireren | |
dative | dem unfaireren | der unfaireren | dem unfaireren | den unfaireren | |
accusative | den unfaireren | die unfairere | das unfairere | die unfaireren | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein unfairerer | eine unfairere | ein unfaireres | (keine) unfaireren |
genitive | eines unfaireren | einer unfaireren | eines unfaireren | (keiner) unfaireren | |
dative | einem unfaireren | einer unfaireren | einem unfaireren | (keinen) unfaireren | |
accusative | einen unfaireren | eine unfairere | ein unfaireres | (keine) unfaireren |
Superlative forms of unfair
number & gender | singular | plural | |||
---|---|---|---|---|---|
masculine | feminine | neuter | |||
predicative | er ist am unfairsten | sie ist am unfairsten | es ist am unfairsten | sie sind am unfairsten | |
strong declension (without article) | nominative | unfairster | unfairste | unfairstes | unfairste |
genitive | unfairsten | unfairster | unfairsten | unfairster | |
dative | unfairstem | unfairster | unfairstem | unfairsten | |
accusative | unfairsten | unfairste | unfairstes | unfairste | |
weak declension (with definite article) | nominative | der unfairste | die unfairste | das unfairste | die unfairsten |
genitive | des unfairsten | der unfairsten | des unfairsten | der unfairsten | |
dative | dem unfairsten | der unfairsten | dem unfairsten | den unfairsten | |
accusative | den unfairsten | die unfairste | das unfairste | die unfairsten | |
mixed declension (with indefinite article) | nominative | ein unfairster | eine unfairste | ein unfairstes | (keine) unfairsten |
genitive | eines unfairsten | einer unfairsten | eines unfairsten | (keiner) unfairsten | |
dative | einem unfairsten | einer unfairsten | einem unfairsten | (keinen) unfairsten | |
accusative | einen unfairsten | eine unfairste | ein unfairstes | (keine) unfairsten |
Further reading[edit]
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