Definitions for Fair

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IPA: /fɛər/

Fair is a 4 letter English word. It's valid Scrabble word worth 7 points. It's valid Words with friends word worth 7 points.

You can make 33 anagrams from letters in Fair (afir).

Definitions for Fair

noun

1. Archaic. something that is fair.
2. Archaic. a woman. a beloved woman.
3. an exhibition, usually competitive, of farm products, livestock, etc., often combined in the U.S. with entertainment and held annually by a county or state.
4. a periodic gathering of buyers and sellers in an appointed place.
5. an exposition in which different exhibitors participate, sometimes with the purpose of buying or selling:
6. an exhibition and sale of articles to raise money, often for some charitable purpose.

Idioms

1. bid fair, to seem likely:
2. fair and square, honestly; justly; straightforwardly: honest; just; straightforward:
3. fair to middling, Informal. only tolerably good; so-so.

adverb

1. in a fair manner:
2. straight; directly, as in aiming or hitting:
3. favorably; auspiciously.
4. British, Australian. entirely; completely; quite:

adjective

1. free from bias, dishonesty, or injustice:
2. legitimately sought, pursued, done, given, etc.; proper under the rules:
3. moderately large; ample:
4. neither excellent nor poor; moderately or tolerably good:
5. marked by favoring conditions; likely; promising:
6. Meteorology. (of the sky) bright; sunny; cloudless to half-cloudy. (of the weather) fine; with no prospect of rain, snow, or hail; not stormy.
7. Nautical. (of a wind or tide) tending to aid the progress of a vessel.
8. unobstructed; not blocked up:
9. without irregularity or unevenness:
10. free from blemish, imperfection, or anything that impairs the appearance, quality, or character:
11. easy to read; clear:
12. of a light hue; not dark:
13. pleasing in appearance; attractive:
14. seemingly good or sincere but not really so:
15. courteous; civil:
16. Medicine/Medical. (of a patient's condition) having stable and normal vital signs and other favorable indicators, as appetite and mobility, but being in some discomfort and having the possibility of a worsening state.
17. Dialect. scarcely; barely:

Verb phrases

1. fair off/up, South Midland and Southern U.S. (of the weather) to clear:

verb (used with object)

1. to make the connection or junction of (surfaces) smooth and even.
2. Shipbuilding. to draw and adjust (the lines of a hull being designed) to produce regular surfaces of the correct form. to adjust the form of (a frame or templet) in accordance with a design, or cause it to conform to the general form of a hull. to restore (a bent plate or structural member) to its original form. to align (the frames of a vessel under construction) in proper position.
3. to bring (rivet holes in connecting structural members) into perfect alignment.
4. Obsolete. to make fair.

Origin of Fair

before 900; Middle English; Old English fæger; cognate with Old Saxon, Old High German fagar, Old Norse fagr, Gothic fagrs

Examples for Fair

To be fair, no artist had ever been asked to, or could have pulled it off if they had.

But of course it will be only fair to sis to lay the matter before her just as it is.

And what are your intentions with regard to this fair captive?

A fair number explicitly ask for an antibiotic, to cover the possibility that it is “bronchitis” or a “sinus infection.”

By half-past nine on the morning of the 18th we had made a fair start.

Perhaps it always seems that way at the time, but surely we face our fair share right now.

The early Church has more than its fair share of powerful women.

“fair and softly,” said the printer with something of a smile.

Prehistoric man, as I just told you, was on a fair way to progress.

Even internally in the House, women are not getting their fair shake.