unilateral

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: u=ni=lat=er=al

CIDE DICTIONARY

unilateral, a. [Uni- + lateral: cf. F. unilatéral.].

•  Being on one side only; affecting but one side; one-sided.  [1913 Webster]
•  Pertaining to one side; one-sided; as, a unilateral raceme, in which the flowers grow only on one side of a common axis, or are all turned to one side.  [1913 Webster]

Unilateral contract (Law), a contract or engagement requiring future action only by one party.

OXFORD DICTIONARY

unilateral, adj.
1 performed by or affecting only one person or party (unilateral disarmament; unilateral declaration of independence).
2 one-sided.
3 (of the parking of vehicles) restricted to one side of the street.
4 (of leaves) all on the same side of the stem.
5 (of a line of descent) through ancestors of one sex only.

Derivative

unilaterally adv.

THESAURUS

unilateral

bifacial, bilateral, dihedral, flanked, handed, lateral, many-sided, monadal, monadic, multilateral, one-piece, one-sided, polyhedral, quadrilateral, sided, tetrahedral, three-sided, trihedral, trilateral, triquetrous, two-sided, uniangulate, unibivalent, unibranchiate, unicameral, unicellular, unicuspid, unidentate, unidigitate, unidimensional, unidirectional, uniflorous, unifoliate, unifoliolate, unigenital, uniglobular, unilinear, uniliteral, unilobed, unilobular, unimodular, unimolecular, uniocular, unipart, unipartite, unipolar, univalent, univocal