biased
English
Etymology
From bias + -ed.
Pronunciation
- (US) IPA(key): /ˈbaɪəst/
- Rhymes: -aɪəst
Adjective
biased (comparative more biased, superlative most biased)
- Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
- Synonyms: partial, prejudiced, tendentious
The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident. Obviously I'm biased, but…
- Having outcomes with unequal probabilities; weighted.
a biased coin
- 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; skewed.
Derived terms
Translations
- Afrikaans: bevooroordeeld
- Arabic: مُتَحَيِّز (mutaḥayyiz)
- Belarusian: прадузя́ты (praduzjáty), упярэ́джаны (upjarédžany), старо́нны (starónny), небесстаро́нні (njebjesstarónni)
- 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, neobjektivní, tendenční, předpojatý
- Danish: tilbøjelig, partisk
- Dutch: partijdig (nl)
- Esperanto: tendenca
- Finnish: väritetty (fi), vääristynyt (fi), puolueellinen (fi)
- French: partial (fr), qui n'est pas impartial, qui a du parti pris
- German: parteiisch (de), voreingenommen (de), tendenziös (de), befangen (de)
- Hindi: पक्षपाती (hi) (pakṣapātī)
- Hungarian: részrehajló (hu), elfogult (hu)
- Irish: laofa, claonta, leataobhach
- Italian: parziale (it), pregiudizievole (it), tendenzioso (it), prevenuto (it)
- Macedonian: при́страсен (prístrasen)
- Māori: ngākaukino, rītaha
- Norwegian:
- Nynorsk: gjera mismon m
- Persian: جانبدارانه (jâneb-dârâne)
- Polish: stronniczy (pl), uprzedzony
- Portuguese: tendencioso (pt)
- Romanian: părtinitor (ro) m
- Russian: пристра́стный (ru) (pristrástnyj), предубеждённый (ru) (predubeždjónnyj)
- Slovak: zaujatý
- Slovene: pristrasan
- Spanish: sesgado (es)
- Swedish: partisk (sv), snedvriden (sv), jävig (sv)
- Ukrainian: упере́джений (uperédženyj), необ'єкти́вний (neobʺjektývnyj)
- Vietnamese: thiên vị (vi)
- Welsh: rhagfarnllyd (cy)
- Yiddish: צדדימדיק (tsdodimdik), פּניותדיק (pniesdik), פּאַרטיייִש (parteyish), אײַנזײַטיק (aynzaytik)
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of statistics - showing an imbalance of a result Verb
biased
- simple past and past participle of bias
She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
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