fair

Plural: fair, fairs

Noun

• a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
• gathering of producers to promote business
  • "world fair"
  • "trade fair"
  • "book fair"
• a competitive exhibition of farm products
  • "she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair"
• a sale of miscellany; often for charity
• Something which is fair (in various senses of the adjective).
• A woman, a member of the ‘fair sex’; also as a collective singular, women.
• Fairness, beauty.
• A fair woman; a sweetheart.
• Good fortune; good luck.
• A community gathering to celebrate and exhibit local achievements.
• An event for public entertainment and trade, a market.
• An event for professionals in a trade to learn of new products and do business, a trade fair.
• A travelling amusement park (called a funfair in British English and a (travelling) carnival in US English).

Verb

Verb Forms: faired, fairing, fairs

• To make smooth, level, or even.
• join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly
• To smoothen or even a surface (especially a connection or junction on a surface).
• To bring into perfect alignment (especially about rivet holes when connecting structural members).
• To make an animation smooth, removing any jerkiness.
• To construct or design with the aim of producing a smooth outline or reducing air drag or water resistance.
• To make fair or beautiful.

Adjective

• Treating everyone equally; just or impartial.
• free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
  • "a fair referee"
  • "fair deal"
  • "on a fair footing"
  • "a fair fight"
  • "by fair means or foul"
• (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines
  • "he hit a fair ball over the third base bag"

Adjective Satellite

• not excessive or extreme
  • "a fairish income"
• very pleasing to the eye
  • "young fair maidens"
• lacking exceptional quality or ability
  • "only a fair performance of the sonata"
  • "in fair health"
• attractively feminine
  • "the fair sex"
• (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections
  • "fair copy"
• gained or earned without cheating or stealing
  • "an fair penny"
• free of clouds or rain
  • "today will be fair and warm"
• (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored
  • "a fair complexion"

Adverb

• in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
  • "they played fairly"
• without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner
  • "deal fairly with one another"

Adj

• Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
• Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
• Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond and red hair.
• Just, equitable.
• Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
• Favorable to a ship's course.
• Favorable, pleasant.
• Favorable, pleasant.
• Not overcast; cloudless; clear.
• Favorable, pleasant.
• Free from obstacles or hindrances; unobstructed; unencumbered; open; direct; said of a road, passage, etc.
• Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.
• Between the baselines.
• Taken direct from an opponent's foot, without the ball touching the ground or another player.
• Not a no ball.
• Of a coin or die, having equal chance of landing on any side, unbiased.

Adv

• Clearly, openly, frankly, civilly, honestly, favorably, auspiciously, agreeably.
• Almost; to a great extent but not literally.

Examples

• A fair coin has a 50% chance of landing on heads.
• a fair mark;  in fair sight;  a fair view
• A FAIR opponent in Scrabble congratulates you on a good play, even if it beats them.
• a fair sky
• After scratching out and replacing various words in the manuscript, he scribed a fair copy to send to the publisher.
• He must be given a fair trial.
• Monday's child is fair of face.
• one's fair name
• She had fair hair and blue eyes.
• The patient was in a fair condition after some treatment.
• The player tried to FAIR the scoring differences with a high-value word.
• The weather was fair today.
• Their performance has been only fair.
• There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid.
• When will we learn to distinguish between the fair and the foul?

Synonyms

average, bazaar, bonnie, bonny, carnival, clean, comely, evenhandedly, fairish, fairly, funfair, honest, just, mediocre, middling, reasonable, sightly, OK, beautiful, equitable, lovely, neat, okay, pale, pretty, pure, to streamline

Antonyms

foul, unfair, unfairly, swarthy

Anagrams of fair