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Adjective fair has 12 senses
- fair, just - free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; or conforming with established standards or rules; "a fair referee"; "fair deal"; "on a fair footing"; "a fair fight"; "by fair means or foul"
Antonyms: unfair, unjust, below the belt, cheating, dirty, foul, unsporting, unsportsmanlike, raw
- impartial, fair - showing lack of favoritism; "the cold neutrality of an impartial judge"
- fair - more than adequate in quality; "fair work"
Antonym: unrespectable (indirect, via respectable)
- fair, fairish, reasonable - not excessive or extreme; "a fairish income"; "reasonable prices"
Antonym: immoderate (indirect, via moderate)
- fair, sightly - visually appealing; "our fair city"
Antonym: ugly (indirect, via beautiful)
- bonny, bonnie, comely, fair - very pleasing to the eye; "my bonny lass"; "there's a bonny bay beyond"; "a comely face"; "young fair maidens"
Antonym: ugly (indirect, via beautiful)
- fair - (of a baseball) hit between the foul lines; "he hit a fair ball over the third base bag"
Antonyms: foul, out-of-bounds
- average, fair, mediocre, middling - of no 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"
Antonym: extraordinary (indirect, via ordinary)
- fair - attractively feminine; "the fair sex"
Antonym: masculine (indirect, via feminine)
- clean, fair - (of a manuscript) having few alterations or corrections; "fair copy"; "a clean manuscript"
Antonym: illegible (indirect, via legible)
- fair - free of clouds or rain; "today will be fair and warm"
Antonym: cloudy (indirect, via clear)
- fair, fairish - (used of hair or skin) pale or light-colored; "a fair complexion";
Antonyms: brunet, brunette (indirect, via blond)
Adverbial fair has 2 senses
- fairly, fair, clean - in conformity with the rules or laws and without fraud or cheating; "they played fairly"
- fairly, fair, without favoring one party, without favouring one party, evenhandedly - in a fair evenhanded manner; "deal fairly with one another"
Noun fair has 4 senses
- carnival, fair, funfair - a traveling show; having sideshows and rides and games of skill etc.
--1 is a kind of show
--1 has parts: midway
- fair - gathering of producers to promote business; "world fair"; "trade fair"; "book fair"
--2 is a kind of gathering, assemblage
--2 has particulars: book fair, bookfair
- fair - a competitive exhibition of farm products; "she won a blue ribbon for her baking at the county fair"
--3 is a kind of exhibition, exposition, expo
- bazaar, fair - a sale of miscellany; often for charity; "the church bazaar"
--4 is a kind of sale, cut-rate sale, sales event
--4 has particulars: book fair, bookfair; craft fair
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