biased

English

Alternative forms

biassed (British)

Pronunciation

(US) IPA^(key): /ˈbaɪəst/
Rhymes: -aɪəst

Verb

biased

simple past tense and past participle of bias
She biased them against him for no apparent reason.

Adjective

biased (comparative more biased, superlative most biased)

exhibiting bias; prejudiced
The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.

Synonyms: partial, prejudiced, tendentious
angled at a slant
The table had a biased edge.
(electrical engineering) on which an electrical bias is applied
(statistics) exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation.

Translations

exhibiting bias; prejudiced

Bulgarian: предубеде́н (bg) (predubedén), пристра́стен (bg) (pristrásten)
Catalan: esbiaixat (ca), tendenciós, parcial (ca)
Chinese:
Mandarin: 有偏心的 (yǒu piānxīn de), 懷偏見的, 怀偏见的 (huái piānjiàn de)
Czech: zaujatý m
Danish: tilbøjelig
Dutch: partijdig (nl)
Finnish: väritetty (fi), vääristynyt, puolueellinen (fi)
French: partial (fr), qui n'est pas impartial, qui a du parti pris
German: parteiisch (de), voreingenommen (de), tendenziös (de)

Hungarian: részrehajló, elfogult (hu)
Irish: laofa, claonta, leataobhach
Macedonian: при́страсен (prístrasen)
Maori: ngākaukino
Persian: جانب‌دارانه‎ (jâneb-dârâne)
Portuguese: tendencioso (pt)
Russian: пристра́стный (ru) (pristrástnyj), предубеждённый (ru) (predubeždjónnyj)
Spanish: sesgado (es), parcial, tendencioso
Swedish: partisk (sv), snedvriden (sv)
Vietnamese: thiên vị (vi)

angled at a slant

Chinese:
Mandarin: please add this translation if you can
Finnish: vino (fi), kalteva (fi)
German: geneigt (de), gekippt (de)

Maori: haukume (referring to statistics)
Portuguese: oblíquo (pt), enviesado (pt)
Russian: отклонённый (ru) (otklonjónnyj), смещённый (ru) (smeščónnyj)
Spanish: oblicuo (es), inclinado (es), en declive, ladeado (es), sesgado (es)

of statistics - showing an imbalance of a result

Maori: haukume

Anagrams

abides, debias

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