Dictionary

one-sided en · ADJ

Pronunciation

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Meanings

1. Partial or biased in favour of one faction or demographic group.
   • We were robbed! That referee was definitely one-sided.
2. With one competitor dominant over the other.
   • Lovenkrands only just failed to connect with another Enrique cross in what was becoming a one-sided affair at Ewood Park but despite Newcastle dominating, Blackburn held out with the half ending goalless. 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC:
   • It was a swift, one-sided fight, all over in the second round.
   • The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them. 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 14:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 04 Aug 2022:
3. Out of proportion or lopsided.
4. Having only one side, like a Möbius strip.
5. Turned to one side.
6. (of a modality) That is necessarily or absolutely different than the respective coordinate alethic or temporal modality, but not its opposite.

Forms

Coordinates

two-sided

Deriveds

one-sidedly · one-sidedness

Relateds

ex parte · unilateral · parti pris

Translations (53)

sv partisk (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · ga aontaobhach (having only one side) · bg пристрастен (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · sv ensidig (having only one side) · pt unilateral (with one competitor dominant over the other) · cmn 偏頗 /偏颇 (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · de einseitig (with one competitor dominant over the other) · sv ensidig (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · el μεροληπτικός (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · cmn 偏袒 (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · cs jednostranný (having only one side) · fi toispuolinen ((botany) turned to one side) · de einseitig (having only one side) · ro unilateral (with one competitor dominant over the other) · ta ஒருதலை (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · cmn 單側 /单侧 (having only one side) · fi yksipuolinen (with one competitor dominant over the other) · cmn 偏向一側 /偏向一侧 ((botany) turned to one side) · cs jednostranný (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · pt parcial (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · de parteiisch (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · ro unilateral (out of proportion or lopsided) · fi yksipuolinen (out of proportion or lopsided) · ga leatromach (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · ga aontaobhach (out of proportion or lopsided) · ru односторо́нний (having only one side) · cy unochrog (with one competitor dominant over the other) · cy unochrog (out of proportion or lopsided) · de einseitig (out of proportion or lopsided) · cmn 失衡 (out of proportion or lopsided) · cmn 偏側生 /偏侧生 ((botany) turned to one side) · cy unochrog (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · ga leataobhach (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · ru односторо́нний (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · el μονόπλευρος (having only one side) · ga aontaobhach (with one competitor dominant over the other) · es partidista (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · fi yksipuolinen (having only one side) · fi toispuoleinen ((botany) turned to one side) · sv ojämn (with one competitor dominant over the other) · cmn 單面 /单面 (having only one side) · fi puolueellinen (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · fi toispuolinen (out of proportion or lopsided) · bg едностранен (having only one side) · es unilateral (with one competitor dominant over the other) · pt unilateral (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · cmn 一面倒 (with one competitor dominant over the other) · cy unochrog (having only one side) · fi yksipuolinen ((logic, of a modality) that is necessarily different than the respective coordinate alethic) · ro partinic (partial or biased in favour of one faction) · bg едностранчив (out of proportion or lopsided) · is einhliða (having only one side) · cmn 不成比例 (out of proportion or lopsided)