unilateral
Unilateral means "one-sided." If parents make a unilateral decision to eliminate summer vacation, it means that the students’ opinions or opposing views weren’t considered.
When someone makes a unilateral decision, he or she acts alone, without considering the feelings, opposing opinions or concerns of others. But it’s not always a bad thing to act unilaterally. If you are in a fight with your sister and haven’t spoken to each other for a week, you could choose to do her chores, compliment her or make other unilateral, good-faith efforts to bring the bad feelings to an end.
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involving only one part or side“unilateral paralysis”“a unilateral decision”synonyms: one-sidedone-partydetermined by a single partyantonyms:multilateralhaving many parts or sidesdeep-lobedhaving deep bilateral lobestwo-lobedhaving two lobesjointinvolving both houses of a legislaturemultipartiteinvolving more than two partiesfive-sidedhaving five sidessix-sidedhaving six sidesseven-sidedhaving seven sideseight-sidedhaving eight sidesnine-sidedhaving nine sidesten-sidedhaving ten sideseleven-sidedhaving eleven sidestwelve-sidedhaving twelve sidestetrameroushaving or consisting of four similar parts; tetramerous flowersthree-corneredinvolving a group or set of threethree-lobedhaving three lobesfour-lobedhaving four lobesfive-lobedhaving five lobesmany-lobedhaving many lobespalmately-lobedhaving lobes radiating from a central point
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tracing descent from either the paternal or the maternal line only
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