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Biased vs Hidebound - What's the difference?

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Biased is a related term of hidebound.


As adjectives the difference between biased and hidebound

is that biased is exhibiting bias; prejudiced while hidebound is bound with the hide of an animal.

As a verb biased

is (bias).

biased

English

Alternative forms

* (UK) biassed

Verb

(head)
  • (bias)
    • She biased them against him for no apparent reason.

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • exhibiting bias; prejudiced
    • The newspaper gave a biased account of the incident.
  • angled at a slant
    • The table had a biased edge.

    Synonyms

    * (having a partial view) partial, prejudiced, tendentious

    Anagrams

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    hidebound

    English

    Alternative forms

    * hide-bound (less common)

    Adjective

    (en adjective)
  • Bound with the hide of an animal.
  • *
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  • (of a domestic animal) Having the skin adhering so closely to the ribs and back as not to be easily loosened or raised; emaciated.
  • (of trees) Having the bark so close and constricting that it impedes the growth.
    • (Francis Bacon)
  • (of a person) Stubborn; narrow-minded; inflexible.
    • (Milton)
    (Carlyle)
  • (obsolete) Niggardly; penurious; stingy.
    • (Quarles)
    (Webster 1913)

    See also

    * (l)