biased
Verb
- influence in an unfair way
- cause to be biased
- simple past and past participle of bias
Adjective Satellite
- favoring one person or side over another
- "a biased account of the trial"
Adj
- Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
- Having outcomes with unequal probabilities; weighted.
- Angled at a slant.
- On which an electrical bias is applied.
- Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
Examples
- a biased coin
- Obviously I'm biased, but…
- She biased them against him for no apparent reason.
- The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
- The table had a biased edge.
Origin / Etymology
From bias + -ed.
Synonyms
bias, colored, coloured, one-sided, predetermine, slanted, partial, prejudiced, tendentious
Scrabble Score: 9
biased: valid Scrabble (US) TWL Wordbiased: valid Scrabble Word in Merriam-Webster MW Dictionary
biased: valid Scrabble Word in International Collins CSW Dictionary
Words With Friends Score: 10
biased: valid Words With Friends Word