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# biased

adjective (biased, more biased, most biased); verb past form of bias (bias, biases, biased, biasing)

«biased» in the English dictionary: everyday — its meanings, how the lessons use it, and examples, each with its tree on Mova.

## Everyday

1. Unfairly favouring one person, side or idea over another, often without good reasons. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#m1)
2. (maths and science) Not fair or not random, like a biased coin or dice that lands one way more often. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#m2)
3. (past form of bias) Made someone or something unfair. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#m3)

### In the lessons

In lessons on news and history pupils learn to spot biased reports that show only one side. In maths, a biased dice changes probabilities, and in science a biased test is not fair. In everyday life a biased referee favours one team. Phrases: "biased against", "biased towards", "biased opinion", "a biased coin".

### Examples

- The referee was biased towards the home team. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#x1)
- This article is biased because it only gives one side. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#x2)
- A biased dice landed on six far too often. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#x3)
- Try not to be biased when you judge the drawings. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#x4)
- The survey was biased because they only asked their friends. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#x5)
- Everyone can be a little biased without noticing. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#x6)
- Our science test was unfair and biased, so we did it again. [tree →](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/#x7)

### Note

Spelled with one s (biased) in most dictionaries; "biassed" is a rare British spelling. In maths, for a fair coin each side has probability 1/2; for a biased coin the probabilities are different, so you need to test it many times to find them. The noun is "bias".

## On Mova

- [Trees and pragmatics of «biased» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/corpora/dictionaries/school/B/biased/): every meaning and example parsed by Mova, with its dependency tree and frames.
- [«biased» in the school dictionary](https://mova.elamur.ai/free/en/dictionaries/school/w/biased.html) on Mova free.