equitable
EK-wih-tuh-buladjMeaning fair and just to everyone involved
Memory hook EQUI-TABLE: EQUAL shares at the TABLE. Nell cuts the pizza into equal slices so everyone at the table gets the same: her way of sharing is equitable.
The sisters worked out an equitable plan for sharing the bike.
In context The new carpool schedule was more equitable than the old one; instead of the same two families always driving, every family took a turn.
Similar fair, just, evenhanded, impartial
Opposite unfair, unjust, biased
From French équitable, from équité (fairness), from Latin aequitas, from aequus (equal, fair).