fair
About 40.61 uses per million words.
Meaning
- adjective Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
Monday's child is fair of face.
- adjective Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
one's fair name
- adjective Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond and red hair.
She had fair hair and blue eyes.
- adjective Just.
He must be given a fair trial.
- adjective Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
Their performance has been only fair.
- adjective Favorable to a ship's course.
- adjective Favorable, pleasant.
The weather was fair today.
- adjective Not overcast; cloudless; clear.
a fair sky
Similar words
sightly comely beautiful fairish respectable feminine moderate reasonable just fairly
Often followed by
to and market value play share trial in amount
Word family
Fair enough fair game fair share fair to say faired fairer fairest fairing fairs only fair
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