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say it: uhn-FER
unfair is an adjective meaning "not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception". It is pronounced /ənˈfɛɹ/ — uhn-FER. It carries one recorded sense.
not fair; marked by injustice or partiality or deception
“used unfair methods”
“it was an unfair trial”
“took an unfair advantage”
Forms marked · are formed by the regular rule rather than recorded in the source data. English keeps a few hundred irregulars and the rest follow the pattern, so the rule is right far more often than not — but it is a rule, and the mark says so.
Definitions, synonyms and semantic relations for unfair come from Princeton University’s WordNet. The pronunciation comes from the CMU Pronouncing Dictionary. Commonness is measured against a corpus of everyday English. Full sources and licences.