one-sided

See also: onesided

English

Adjective

one-sided (comparative more one-sided, superlative most one-sided)

  1. Partial or biased in favour of one faction or demographic group.
    We were robbed! That referee was definitely one-sided.
  2. With one competitor dominant over the other.
    It was a swift, one-sided fight, all over in the second round.
    • 2011 February 12, Nabil Hassan, “Blackburn 0 - 0 Newcastle”, in BBC:
      Lovenkrands only just failed to connect with another Enrique cross in what was becoming a one-sided affair at Ewood Park but despite Newcastle dominating, Blackburn held out with the half ending goalless.
    • 2018 October 17, Drachinifel, 14:13 from the start, in Last Ride of the High Seas Fleet - Battle of Texel 1918, archived from the original on 4 August 2022:
      The fight is not all one-sided. Lion is taking a savage beating as the two flagships trade body blows almost independent of the furious carronade going on behind them.
  3. Out of proportion or lopsided.
  4. Having only one side, like a Möbius strip.
  5. (botany) Turned to one side.
  6. (logic, of a modality) That is necessarily or absolutely different than the respective coordinate alethic or temporal modality, but not its opposite.

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