unpartial

comparative more unpartial · superlative most unpartial

1. Impartial, unbiased.First known use 16th c.

   The Liberal Union […] approves the idea of guaranteeing an unpartial and proper trial.

   1998 March 4, Baltic News Service

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   Justice, that makes princes like the gods, / Draws us unto the Senate, / That with unpartial balance we may poise / The crimes and innocence of all offenders.

   1613, John Marston, William Barksted, The Insatiate Countess, IV.1

   [S]uch as therefore ſhould not be adventured vpon vvithout mature and vnpartiall diſquiſition of the vprightneſſe of our affections therein, […]

   1621 May 4 (date delivered; Gregorian calendar), Robert Saunderson [i.e., Robert Sanderson], “[Ad Clerum.] The Second Sermon. At a Visitation at Boston, Linc[olnshire] 24. April. 1621.”, in Twelve Sermons, […], [new] edition, London: […] Aug[ustine] Math[ews], for Robert Dawlman, and are to be sold by Robert Allet, […], published 1632, →OCLC, §. 18, pages 59–60

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

2. Not partial (to); antagonistic.First known use 19th c.

   I’m particularly unpartial to Bluetooth with its pairing hassles (the K-750s use an RF interface and a USB receiver dongle), but for the past 3-1/2 years, Bluetooth keyboards have been the only external input devices supported on the iPad and other iOS machines.

   2014 May 16, Technology Tell, archived from the original on 24 Mar 2016

   Synonyms: adverse, opposed, adverse, antagonistic, conflicting, contentious, counteracting, hostile