fairer
USFAIR-ur/ˈfɛɹɚ/UKFAIR-uh/ˈfɛəɹə(ɹ)/
- 1Comparative of fair.
The reforms promised a fairer distribution of public funds across the region.
Her complexion was noticeably fairer than her brother's after the long winter indoors.
Note
The comparing is done by a suffix: fair simply adds -er, as in a fairer distribution or a fairer complexion. The form carries every sense of fair, including more just, paler in skin or hair, and more favorable to a ship's course, and only context tells them apart. When it means lovelier, it takes on the archaic, literary color of that sense and reads as poetry rather than plain description.
fairer is a form of fair
fair, adjective: Treating people in a way that is just and equitable. Full entry
- Spelling
- fair → fairer: add -er
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