nonpartisan

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adjective

Not partisan; impartial and unbiased.

Opposite
Less commonScrabble 13

Meanings

adjectivenonpartisan (not comparable)

alternative dated nonpartizan

  1. not comparableNot partisan; impartial and unbiased.

    This means Gore will have to stop dancing away from the question as if the pardon decision were somehow shared with the pardonee. It's time he chose the hard right over the easy wrong answer. (For Bush, it would be an opportunity to demonstrate nonpartisan compassion on a grand scale.)

    2000 August 24, William Safire, “Essay; Pardon Me, But . . .”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 03 Feb 2018

    Synonyms: disinterested, unpartisan, candid, cold, clinical, detached, egal, equal

nounnonpartisan (plural nonpartisans)

plural nonpartisans · alternative dated nonpartizan

  1. One who is not a partisan.
  2. A person who has not selected or declared a side or party.

    “The first thing is that nonpartisans as a group are occasional voters,” Mr. DiCamillo said. “They are not as engaged in politics. They view the parties as being too partisan and migrated to nonpartisan.”

    2008 January 29, Jennifer Steinhauer, “California’s Unaffiliated Voters Are Sometimes Unreachable”, in The New York Times, archived from the original on 05 Jan 2018

Synonyms & antonyms

More synonyms by meaning

adjectivefree from party affiliation or bias

Opposite

nouna person who is nonpartisan

Opposite

Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.

Origin

  1. Proto-Indo-European*né
  2. Proto-Germanic*ne
  3. Proto-Indo-European*ís?
  4. Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
  5. Proto-Germanic*ainaz
  6. Proto-Germanic*nainaz
  7. Proto-West Germanic*nain
  8. Old Englishnān
  9. Middle Englishnon
  10. Old Englishnān
  11. Old Englishnān-
  12. Middle Englishnon-
  13. Englishnon-
  14. Englishpartisan
  15. Englishnonpartisan

From non- + partisan.

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Translations

Chinese Mandarin 無黨派 /无党派, 無黨派人士 /无党派人士
  • 無黨派 /无党派 (wúdǎngpài)Translations
  • 無黨派人士 /无党派人士 (wúdǎngpài rénshì)Translations
German überparteilich
  • überparteilichTranslations
Polish bezpartyjny, bezpartyjny
  • bezpartyjnyTranslations
  • bezpartyjnyTranslations
  • bezpartyjnaTranslations
Spanish apartidista, apartidista
  • apartidistaTranslations
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APA

nonpartisan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonpartisan

MLA

“nonpartisan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonpartisan. Accessed November 2, 2026.

Chicago

WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonpartisan,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonpartisan.

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