one-sided

Speech parts

1. one-sided - Adjective

2. one-sided - Adjective Satellite

Meaning

Having one side only, or one side prominent; hence, limited to one side; partial; unjust; unfair; as, a one-sided view or statement.

Growing on one side of a stem; as, one-sided flowers.

Source: Webster's dictionary

Alternative names

one sided

Synonyms

colored biased slanted coloured unilateral partizan partial irregular weighted uneven partisan unequal unjust one-way asymmetrical
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Antonyms

even just outside liberal equal fair
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Examples

The fact is, every thinker, every philosopher, the moment he is forced to abandon his one-sided intellectual occupation by practical necessity, immediately returns to the general point of view of mankind. Ernst Mach

India wants to avoid a war at all costs but it is not a one-sided affair, you cannot shake hands with a clenched fist. Indira Gandhi

Nietzsche ... does not shy from conscious exaggeration and one-sided formulations of his thought, believing that in this way he can most clearly set in relief what in his vision and in his inquiry is different from the run-of-the-mill. Martin Heidegger

It is useless to talk with those who do not understand one and troublesome to talk with those who criticize from a feeling of superiority. Especially one-sided persons are troublesome. Few are accomplished in many arts and most cling narrowly to their own opinion. Murasaki Shikibu

By its very nature, history is always a one-sided account. Dan Brown

For the division of labor demands from the individual an ever more one-sided accomplishment, and the greatest advance in a one-sided pursuit only too frequently means dearth to the personality of the individual. Georg Simmel

Close letter words and terms

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