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fair in WordNet English dictionary

adjective
  1. lacking exceptional quality or ability
    "a novel of average merit"; "only a fair performance of the sonata"; "in fair health"; "the caliber of the students has gone from mediocre to above average"; "the performance was middling at best"
    average  fair  mediocre  middling 
  2. very pleasing to the eye
    "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
    bonny  bonnie  comely  fair  sightly 
  3. (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections
    "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
    clean  fair 
  4. (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines
    "he hit a fair ball over the third base bag"
    fair 
  5. free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules
    "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
    fair  just 
  6. (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored
    "a fair complexion";
    fair  fairish 
  7. free of clouds or rain
    "today will be fair and warm"
    fair 
  8. gained or earned without cheating or stealing
    "an honest wage"; "an fair penny"
    honest  fair 
  9. attractively feminine
    "the fair sex"
    fair 
  10. not excessive or extreme
    "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
    fair  fairish  reasonable 
noun
  1. a sale of miscellany; often for charity
    "the church bazaar"
    bazaar  fair 
  2. a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
    carnival  fair  funfair 
  3. a competitive exhibition of farm products
    "she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair"
    fair 
  4. gathering of producers to promote business
    "world fair"; "trade fair"; "book fair"
    fair 
adverb
  1. in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating
    "they played fairly"
    fairly  fair  clean  fairly  fair  clean 
  2. without favoring one party, in a fair evenhanded manner
    "deal fairly with one another"
    fairly  fair  evenhandedly  fairly  fair  evenhandedly 
verb
  1. join so that the external surfaces blend smoothly
    fair 
WordNet Lexical Database v3.0, © 2006 Princeton University