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| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to favor |
| Synonyms: | distort, incline, influence, prejudice, slant, sway, twist, warp, weight, make partial, prepossess |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
| Antonyms: | be fair, be impartial, be just |
| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief in one way; partiality |
| Synonyms: | bent, bigotry, chauvinism, disposition, favoritism, flash, inclination, intolerance, leaning, mind-set*, penchant, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, propensity, spin, standpoint, tendency, tilt, turn, viewpoint, head-set, illiberality, mind trip, narrowmindedness, one-sidedness, prepossession, proneness, unfairness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, impartiality, justness |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | diagonal weave of fabric |
| Synonyms: | angle, cant, cross, incline, oblique, slant |
| Main Entry: | bigotry |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | intolerance, prejudice |
| Synonyms: | bias, discrimination, fanaticism, injustice, partiality, racism, sexism, Jim Crowism, dogmatism, narrow-mindedness, provincialism, racialism, sectarianism, unfairness |
| Antonyms: | fairness, tolerance, broad-mindedness, open-mindedness |
| Main Entry: | diagonal |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | angled |
| Synonyms: | askew, bevel, bias, biased, cross, crosswise, oblique, slanted, slanting, transverse, beveled, cater-cornered, catty-cornered, cornerways, crossways, inclining, kitty-cornered, skewing, transversal |
| Main Entry: | dispose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | place, order; deal with |
| Synonyms: | actuate, adapt, adjust, arrange, array, bend, bias, call the tune, condition, determine, distribute, fix, govern, group, incline, induce, influence, lay down the law, lead, locate, make willing, marshal, methodize, motivate, move, organize, predispose, prepare, promote, prompt, put, put one's foot down, put to rights, range, rank, read the riot act, regulate, ride herd on*, set, set in order, settle, shepherd, stand, sway, systematize, tailor, tempt |
| Antonyms: | disarrange, disorder, displace, disturb, mismanage |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distort |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | deform; falsify |
| Synonyms: | alter, angle, belie, bend, bias, buckle, change, collapse, color, con, contort, crush, curve, deceive, decline, deteriorate, deviate, disfigure, doctor*, fake, fudge*, garble, knot, lie, mangle, melt, misconstrue, misinterpret, misrepresent, pervert, sag, scam*, slant, slump, snow*, torture, twist, warp, whitewash*, wind, wrench, writhe, gnarl, make out like, misshape, phony up, put one on, trump up |
| Antonyms: | beautify, straight, shape nicely |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | distortion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | deformity; falsification |
| Synonyms: | baloney*, bend, bias, buckle, coloring, contortion, crock, exaggeration, jazz*, lie, line, malformation, misrepresentation, misstatement, misuse, perversion, slant, smoke*, story*, torture, twist, warp, BS, crookedness, intorsion, jive*, malconformation, misinterpretation, misshape, mutilation, tall story, twistedness |
| Antonyms: | beauty, clarity, perfection |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fallacy |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | illusion, misconception |
| Synonyms: | aberration, ambiguity, artifice, bias, casuistry, cavil, deceit, deception, delusion, deviation, equivocation, erratum, error, evasion, falsehood, flaw, heresy, inconsistency, mistake, notion, paradox, perversion, preconception, prejudice, quibbling, quirk, solecism, sophism, sophistry, subterfuge, untruth, deceptiveness, elusion, erroneousness, faultiness, illogicality, inexactness, invalidity, misapprehension, miscalculation, misconstrual, misinterpretation, non sequitur, speciousness |
| Antonyms: | certainty, evidence, fact, honesty, reality, right, surety, truth |
| Main Entry: | fanaticism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | overenthusiasm |
| Synonyms: | bias, bigotry, dedication, devotion, dogma, enthusiasm, faction, frenzy, hatred, infatuation, injustice, intolerance, madness, obstinacy, partiality, passion, prejudice, rage, stubbornness, superstition, tenacity, transport, violence, zeal, abandonment, arbitrariness, contumacy, extremism, illiberality, immoderation, incorrigibility, monomania, obsessiveness, partisanship, single-mindedness, unfairness, unreasonableness, unruliness, willfulness, zealotry |
| Antonyms: | impartiality, disinterest, unenthusiasm |
| Main Entry: | favor |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | approval, good opinion; help |
| Synonyms: | accommodation, account, admiration, aid, approbation, assistance, backing, benediction, benefit, benevolence, bias, blessing, boon, championship, compliment, consideration, cooperation, courtesy, dispensation, encouragement, esteem, estimation, friendliness, gift, good will*, grace, indulgence, kindness, largess, okay, partiality, patronage, present, regard, respect, service, support, token, benignity, good turn, obligement |
| Antonyms: | disapproval, disfavor |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inequality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | prejudice; lack of balance |
| Synonyms: | asperity, bias, contrast, difference, discrimination, disparity, disproportion, dissimilarity, diversity, injustice, irregularity, roughness, variation, dissimilitude, imparity, incommensurateness, one-sidedness, partisanship, preferentiality, unequivalence, unevenness, unfairness, unjustness |
| Antonyms: | balance, equality, evenness, similarity |
| Main Entry: | influence |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | lead to believe, do |
| Synonyms: | affect, alter, arouse, bias, brainwash*, bribe, bring to bear, carry weight, change, channel, compel, control, count, determine, direct, dispose, form, get at*, guide, impel, impress, incite, incline, induce, instigate, manipulate, modify, mold, move, persuade, predispose, prejudice, prevail, prompt, regulate, rouse, rule, seduce, sell, shape, snow*, sway, train, turn, urge, act upon, argue into, be recognized, have a part in, impact on, pull strings, talk into, work upon |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | liking |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, taste |
| Synonyms: | affection, affinity, appetite, appreciation, attachment, attraction, bent, bias, desire, devotion, fancy, favoritism, inclination, love, mind, partiality, passion, penchant, pleasure, predilection, preference, propensity, relish, soft spot*, stomach, sympathy, tendency, tooth, weakness, will, palate, proneness, velleity |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | nepotism |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favoritism |
| Synonyms: | bias, discrimination, inequity, partiality, preference, one-sidedness, partisanship, preferential treatment |
| Main Entry: | partiality |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | favoritism, fondness |
| Synonyms: | affinity, bias, cup of tea*, dish, flash, inclination, leaning, liking, love, penchant, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency, thing*, type, weakness, druthers, inclining, partisanship |
| Antonyms: | fairness, impartiality, justice, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | penchant |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | fondness, inclination |
| Synonyms: | affection, affinity, attachment, bias, disposition, itch*, leaning, liking, partiality, predilection, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, taste, tendency, tilt*, turn*, weakness, yen, druthers, inclining, proneness |
| Antonyms: | dislike, hate, hatred, indifference |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | preconception |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea formed before event occurs or facts are received |
| Synonyms: | assumption, bias, delusion, illusion, inclination, notion, predisposition, prejudice, presumption, preconceived idea, prejudgment, prepossession, presupposition |
| Antonyms: | ignorance |
| Main Entry: | predilection |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | inclination, preference toward something |
| Synonyms: | bent*, bias, cup of tea*, dish*, fancy, flash, fondness, groove, leaning, liking, love, partiality, penchant, predisposition, proclivity, propensity, taste*, tendency, thing*, type, weakness, druthers, inclining, mindset, proneness |
| Antonyms: | antipathy, dislike, hate, disinterest |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | predispose |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | influence to believe something |
| Synonyms: | activate, affect, animate, bend*, bias, cultivate, dispose, govern, impress, incline, indoctrinate, induce, inspire, lead, prejudice, prepare, prime, prompt, stimulate, strike, sway, teach, urge, make expectant, make of a mind to |
| Antonyms: | discourage, dissuade |
* = informal/non-formal usage
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
Copyright © 2009 by the Philip Lief Group.
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Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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