Meanings
alternative dated nonpartizan
- 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 2018Synonyms: disinterested, unpartisan, candid, cold, clinical, detached, egal, equal
plural nonpartisans · alternative dated nonpartizan
- One who is not a partisan.
- 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
adjectiveNot partisan; impartial and unbiased.
More synonyms by meaning
adjectivefree from party affiliation or bias
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
- Proto-Indo-European*né
- Proto-Germanic*ne
- Proto-Indo-European*ís?
- Proto-Indo-European*h₁óynos
- Proto-Germanic*ainaz
- Proto-Germanic*nainaz
- Proto-West Germanic*nain
- Old Englishnān
- Middle Englishnon
- Old Englishnān
- Old Englishnān-
- Middle Englishnon-
- Englishnon-
- Englishpartisan
- Englishnonpartisan
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
- apartidistaTranslations
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Cite this entry
nonpartisan. (n.d.). In WatkinsX Dictionary. Retrieved November 2, 2026, from https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonpartisan
“nonpartisan.” WatkinsX Dictionary, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonpartisan. Accessed November 2, 2026.
WatkinsX Dictionary, s.v. “nonpartisan,” accessed November 2, 2026, https://dictionary.watkinsx.com/word/nonpartisan.
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