Fair

/ˈfɛə/ · adjective

Meaning

(original sense, archaic or literary) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality..

Definitions by Sense

1. (original sense, archaic or literary) Beautiful, of a pleasing appearance, with a pure and fresh quality.
2. Unblemished (figuratively or literally); clean and pure; innocent.
3. Light in color, pale, particularly with regard to skin tone but also referring to blond and red hair.
4. Just.
5. Adequate, reasonable, or decent, but not excellent.
6. (nautical, of a wind) Favorable to a ship's course.
7. Favorable, pleasant.
8. (shipbuilding) Without sudden change of direction or curvature; smooth; flowing; said of the figure of a vessel, and of surfaces, water lines, and other lines.

Example Sentences

Monday's child is fair of face.

There was once a knight who wooed a fair young maid.

He is so fayre, withoutten les, / he semys full well to sytt on des.

That the ſonnes of God ſaw the daughters of men, that they were faire, and they took them wiues, of all which they choſe.

"It was a purely scientific research party sent out by my father's father, the Jeddak of Helium, to rechart the air currents, and to take atmospheric density tests," replied the fair prisoner, in a low, well-modulated voice.

And yet he was also, though many generations separated them, distant cousin to the shining eoten-main Geard, whom the god Frea Ing had seen from afar and wedded; and to Scatha, the fair daughter of the old thurse Theasa, who had claimed a husband from among the gods as weregild for her father's slaying: often, it was said, the ugliest eotens would sire the fairest maids.

one's fair name

After scratching out and replacing various words in the manuscript, he scribed a fair copy to send to the publisher.

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Word Forms

• fairer
• fairest
• fair
• fairs
• fairing
• faired
• more fair
• most fair

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