impartial

/ɪmˈpɑrʃəl/

/ɪmˈpɑʃəl/

If you're in a contest, you'd better hope the judges are impartial. That means that they aren't biased toward one competitor over another.

If you’re partial to the color green, you love green and wear it all the time. If you’re impartial to colors, you don’t care what color you wear. To be impartial is to be objective, so you don’t mind one way or another how something is going to turn out. It’s important for jurors to be impartial when reaching a verdict, rather than allowing biases and preconceptions affect their judgment.

Definitions of impartial

1. adjective

   free from undue bias or preconceived opinions
   “the impartial eye of a scientist”

   synonyms: unprejudiced

   color-blind, colour-blind, nonracist

   unprejudiced about race

   open, receptive

   ready or willing to receive favorably
2. adjective

   showing lack of favoritism
   “the cold neutrality of an impartial judge”

   synonyms:

   fair, just

   free from favoritism or self-interest or bias or deception; conforming with established standards or rules

   disinterested

   unaffected by self-interest

   cold-eyed, dispassionate

   unaffected by strong emotion or prejudice

   indifferent, unbiased, unbiassed

   characterized by a lack of partiality

   indifferent

   marked by no especial liking or dislike or preference for one thing over another

   antonyms:

   partial

   showing favoritism

   unfair, unjust

   not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception

   biased, colored, coloured, one-sided, skewed, slanted

   favoring one person or side over another