fair-minded
adjectiveWilling to consider people and arguments without bias or favoritism.
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Clear all filtersWilling to consider people and arguments without bias or favoritism.
Unwilling to consider ideas or practices beyond a limited set of familiar views.
Unreasonably intolerant of people or opinions outside one's own group or beliefs.
Impartial because one has no personal stake in the outcome.
Not influenced by strong emotion or personal bias.
Willing or having a tendency to do something.
Insisting on beliefs as unquestionably true without sufficient openness to challenge.
Fair and just toward the people involved.
An inappropriately light or disrespectful attitude toward a serious matter.
Showing an inappropriately casual or disrespectful attitude toward a serious matter.
Having a tendency or willingness to think or act in a particular way.
Narrow in outlook or isolated from outside ideas and influences.
Narrow in outlook
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An unwillingness to accept beliefs, behavior, or people different from one's own.
Refusal to accept differences
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Unwilling to accept views, behavior, or people regarded as different or objectionable.
Unwilling to accept differences
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Open to unfamiliar ideas or ways of living rather than narrowly bound by convention.
Open to different ideas
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Very high or elevated; figuratively, ambitious, noble, or expressed with superiority.
Very high
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An emphasis on possessions and physical comfort; in philosophy, the view that reality is fundamentally material.
Priority given to possessions
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Nearsighted; figuratively, failing to consider broader or longer-term consequences.
Lacking foresight
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A person who does not follow generally accepted beliefs, customs, or patterns of behavior.
Person departing from convention
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Limited to narrow local concerns or experiences.
Developing by stages or favoring reform and new approaches.
Developing in stages
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Narrow in outlook or limited by local experience and assumptions.
Willing to listen to, consider, or accept ideas and suggestions.
A state of pleasant, dreamy thought.
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