one-sided

[ wuhn-sahy-did ]
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adjective
  1. considering but one side of a matter or question; partial or unfair: a one-sided judgment.

  2. with one party, contestant, side, etc., vastly superior; unbalanced; unequal: a one-sided fight.

  1. existing or occurring on one side only.

  2. having but one side, or but one developed or finished side.

  3. having one side larger or more developed than the other.

  4. Law. involving the action of one person only.

  5. having the parts all on one side, as an inflorescence.

Origin of one-sided

1
First recorded in 1805–15

Other words from one-sided

  • one-sid·ed·ly, adverb
  • one-sid·ed·ness, noun

Words Nearby one-sided

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How to use one-sided in a sentence

  • A one-sided view of the Memory proclaims that if vivid First Impressions are made in all cases, that is enough.

    Assimilative Memory | Marcus Dwight Larrowe (AKA Prof. A. Loisette)
  • Now, unless the interlocutor adopts the same method and declares what he would do, conversation is apt to become one-sided.

  • Nothing is more frequent than a one-sided contract, in which one party has gained far more than the other.

  • Marshal Marmont has been called one of Napoleon's failures, but this criticism is one-sided and unjust.

    Napoleon's Marshals | R. P. Dunn-Pattison
  • At the front it has a one-sided irregular look; and this is owing to the non-completion of a collateral spire.

British Dictionary definitions for one-sided

one-sided

adjective
  1. considering or favouring only one side of a matter, problem, etc

  2. having all the advantage on one side

  1. larger or more developed on one side

  2. having, existing on, or occurring on one side only

  3. another term for unilateral

  4. denoting a surface on which any two points can be joined without crossing an edge: See Möbius strip

Derived forms of one-sided

  • one-sidedly, adverb
  • one-sidedness, noun

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