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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: | bigoted |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | intolerant, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | biased, dogmatic, narrow, narrow-minded, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, sectarian, slanted, small-minded, twisted, unfair, chauvinistic, warped |
| Antonyms: | broad-minded, fair, humanitarian, just, open-minded, tolerant, unprejudiced |
| 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: | disposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | inclined to a type of behavior |
| Synonyms: | apt, biased, game*, given, liable, likely, minded, partial, predisposed, prone, ready, subject, willing, at drop of hat, fain, game for, of a mind to, tending toward |
| Antonyms: | indisposed, unlikely, unwilling, unready |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | doctrinaire |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | dogmatic, opinionated |
| Synonyms: | authoritarian, authoritative, biased, bigoted, bullheaded*, dictatorial, dogged, fanatical, impractical, inflexible, insistent, magisterial, mulish, obstinate, one-sided, pertinacious, pigheaded*, rigid, speculative, stubborn, unrealistic, dictative, stiff-necked* |
| Antonyms: | amenable, flexible, manageable, obedient, submissive |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | fanatical |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | overenthusiastic |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, burning*, contumacious, credulous, devoted, dogmatic, domineering, enthusiastic, erratic, extreme, fervent, feverish, fiery, frenzied, headstrong, immoderate, impassioned, impulsive, incorrigible, infatuated, mad, narrow-minded, obsessed, obstinate, opinionated, partial, partisan, passionate, possessed, prejudiced, rabid, radical, raving, single-minded, stubborn, unruly, violent, visionary, wild, willful, zealous, bugged, high on, monomaniacal, nuts for, obsessive, turned on |
| Antonyms: | disinterested, dispassionate, impartial, unenthusiastic |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | inequitable |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | unfair |
| Synonyms: | arbitrary, biased, discriminatory, one-sided, partial, partisan, prejudiced, unbalanced, unequal, unethical, uneven, unjust |
| Main Entry: | interested |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | concerned, curious |
| Synonyms: | absorbed, affected, attentive, biased, caught, drawn, engrossed, excited, fascinated, fired*, gone*, hooked*, implicated, impressed, inspired, intent, into*, involved, keen, moved, obsessed, occupied, open, partial, partisan, predisposed, prejudiced, responsive, sold, stimulated, struck, sympathetic, taken, touched, attracted, awakened, eat sleep and breathe, enticed, inspirited, lured, on the case, roused, stirred |
| Antonyms: | apathetic, disinterested, unconcerned, incurious |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | intolerant |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | impatient, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | antipathetic, averse, biased, bigoted, communist, conservative, contemptuous, dictatorial, disdainful, dogmatic, fanatical, fractious, hateful, illiberal, indignant, inflexible, irate, irritable, jaundiced, narrow, narrow-minded, obdurate, one-sided, racist, small-minded*, snappy, stuffy, uncharitable, unfair, unsympathetic, unwilling, upset, waspish, chauvinistic, individualistic, outraged, racialist, short-fuse, tilted, unforbearing, unindulgent, worked-up, xenophobic |
| Antonyms: | fair, impartial, patient, tolerant, unprejudiced |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | jaundiced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tainted, prejudiced |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, bitter, colored, cynical, distorted, envious, hostile, intolerant, jealous, one-sided, opprobrious, partial, partisan, prepossessed, skeptical, spiteful, suspicious, unfair, unfriendly, yellow, disapproving, grudging, preconceived, resentful, tendentious, unindifferent, warped |
| Antonyms: | clean, fresh, unbiased, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | myopic |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | able only to see things near at hand |
| Synonyms: | biased, blind, nearsighted, shortsighted, astigmatic, halfsighted, presbyopic |
| Antonyms: | far-sighted |
| Main Entry: | opinionated |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | believing very strongly and conveying it |
| Synonyms: | adamant, arbitrary, assertive, biased, bigoted, bossy, bullheaded*, cocksure*, cocky*, conceited, dictatorial, doctrinaire, dogmatic, hard-line*, high-handed, inflexible, intransigent, obdurate, obstinate, one-sided, oracular, overbearing, pigheaded*, positive, pragmatic, prejudiced, self-assertive, single-minded, stubborn, uncompromising, unyielding, locked in, pragmatical, set in stone, set-on, tilted, weighted |
| Antonyms: | indifferent, open-minded, compromising |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | parochial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded, restricted |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, conservative, conventional, insular, limited, local, narrow, petty, prejudiced, provincial, regional, sectarian, sectional, shallow, small-minded, inward-looking, small-town |
| Antonyms: | broad, liberal, unrestricted |
| Main Entry: | partisan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, factional |
| Synonyms: | accessory, biased, bigoted, blind, colored, devoted, diehard*, exclusive, fanatic, jaundiced, one-sided, partial, prejudiced, prepossessed, sectarian, sympathetic, unjust, zealous, adhering, cliquish, conspiratorial, denominational, overzealous, tendentious, unreasoning, warped |
| Antonyms: | disinterested |
* = informal/non-formal usage
| Main Entry: | predisposed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | willing, inclined |
| Synonyms: | agreeable, amenable, biased, eager, enthusiastic, given to, liable, likely, minded, partial, prone, ready, subject, susceptible, fain |
| Antonyms: | disagreeing, disinclined, unprepared, unwilling |
| Main Entry: | prejudicial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | harmful, undermining |
| Synonyms: | bad, biased, bigoted, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, disadvantageous, discriminatory, evil, hurtful, inimical, injurious, mischievous, nocuous, unfavorable, unjust, counterproductive, differential |
| Antonyms: | fair, just, unbiased, approving |
| Main Entry: | prepossessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made partial by initial impression |
| Synonyms: | biased, colored, inclined, jaundiced, one-sided, opinionated, partisan, predisposed, prejudiced, tendentious, unindifferent, warped |
| Antonyms: | total, whole |
| Main Entry: | racist |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | bigoted |
| Synonyms: | biased, illiberal, intolerant, narrow-minded, opinionated, partial, prejudiced, sectarian, small-minded, anti-Semitic, xenophobic |
| Main Entry: | small-minded |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | narrow-minded |
| Synonyms: | biased, bigoted, conservative, illiberal, intolerant, opinionated, petty, prejudiced, selfish, short-sighted |
| Main Entry: | subjective |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | emotional; based on inner experience rather than fact |
| Synonyms: | abstract, biased, fanciful, idiosyncratic, illusory, individual, instinctive, introspective, introverted, intuitive, personal, prejudiced, nonobjective, nonrepresentative, unobjective |
| Antonyms: | objective, unbiased, unemotional, unprejudiced |
Roget's 21st Century Thesaurus, Third Edition
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