biased, colored, coloured, one-sided, slanted
(adjective) favoring one person or side over another; “a biased account of the trial”; “a decision that was partial to the defendant”
Source: WordNet® 3.1
biased (comparative more biased, superlative most biased)
Exhibiting bias; prejudiced.
Synonyms: partial, prejudiced, tendentious
Angled at a slant.
(electrical engineering) On which an electrical bias is applied.
(statistics) Exhibiting a systematic distortion of results due to a factor not allowed for in its derivation; skewed.
biased
simple past tense and past participle of bias
• abides, debias
Source: Wiktionary
Bi"as, n.; pl. Biases. Etym: [F. biasis, perh. fr. LL. bifax two- faced; L. bis + facies face. See Bi-, and cf. Face.]
1. A weight on the side of the ball used in the game of bowls, or a tendency imparted to the ball, which turns it from a straight line. Being ignorant that there is a concealed bias within the spheroid, which will . . . swerve away. Sir W. Scott.
2. A learning of the mind; propensity or prepossession toward an object or view, not leaving the mind indifferent; bent inclination. Strong love is a bias upon the thoughts. South. Morality influences men's lives, and gives a bias to all their actions. Locke.
3. A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (as the waist of a dress) to diminish its circumference.
4. A slant; a diagonal; as, to cut cloth on the bias.
Syn.
– Prepossession; prejudice; partiality; inclination. See Bent.
Bi"as, a.
1. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side. [Obs.] Shak.
2. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
Bi"as, adv.
Definition: In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally; as, to cut cloth bias.
Bi"as, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Biased; p. pr. & vb. n. Biasing.]
Definition: To incline to one side; to give a particular direction to; to influence; to prejudice; to prepossess. Me it had not biased in the one direction, nor should it have biased any just critic in the counter direction. De. Quincey.
Source: Webster’s Unabridged Dictionary 1913 Edition
15 April 2025
(adjective) marked by or promising bad fortune; “their business venture was doomed from the start”; “an ill-fated business venture”; “an ill-starred romance”; “the unlucky prisoner was again put in irons”- W.H.Prescott
The word “coffee” entered the English language in 1582 via the Dutch “koffie,” borrowed from the Ottoman Turkish “kahve,” borrowed in turn from the Arabic “qahwah.” The Arabic word qahwah was traditionally held to refer to a type of wine.
