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unfair

adj
/ʌnˈfɛə(ɹ)/UK/ʌnˈfɛɚ/US

Etymology

From Middle English unfair (“unattractive, unseemly”), from Old English unfæġer (“ugly”), equivalent to un- + fair.

  1. inherited from unfæġer
  2. inherited from unfair

Definitions

  1. Not fair.

    • It was unfair for the boss to give larger bonuses to his friends.

  2. to make ugly

    • Those hours that with gentle work did frame / The lovely gaze where every eye doth dwell / Will play the tyrants to the very same / And that unfair which fairly doth excel.

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Derived

unfair competition, unfair dismissal, unfair list

Vish — recursive loop

A definitional loop anchored at unfair. Each word in the ring is defined by the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself. Scroll to it and watch.

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A definitional loop anchored at unfair. Each word in the ring appears in the definition of the next; follow the chain far enough and it folds back on itself.

10 hops · closes at unfair

curated · pre-corpus. live cycle detection across the full graph is the next major milestone.

sense glosses and etymology drawn from English Wiktionary · source · CC-BY-SA