'Prejudice' definitions:
Definition of 'prejudice'
(from WordNet)
noun
A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation [syn: bias, prejudice, preconception]
verb
Disadvantage by prejudice
verb
Influence (somebody's) opinion in advance [syn: prejudice, prepossess]
Definition of 'Prejudice'
From: GCIDE
- Prejudice \Prej"u*dice\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prejudiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Prejudicing.] [Cf. F. pr['e]judicier. See Prejudice, n.]
- 1. To cause to have prejudice; to prepossess with opinions formed without due knowledge or examination; to bias the mind of, by hasty and incorrect notions; to give an unreasonable bent to, as to one side or the other of a cause; as, to prejudice a critic or a juryman. [1913 Webster]
- Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. --I. Watts [1913 Webster]
- 2. To obstruct or injure by prejudices, or by previous bias of the mind; hence, generally, to hurt; to damage; to injure; to impair; as, to prejudice a good cause. [1913 Webster]
- Seek how may prejudice the foe. --Shak [1913 Webster]
Definition of 'Prejudice'
From: GCIDE
- Prejudice \Prej"u*dice\, n. [F. pr['e]judice, L. praejudicium; prae before + judicium judgment. See Prejudicate, Judicial.]
- 1. Foresight. [Obs.] [1913 Webster]
- Naught might hinder his quick prejudize. --Spenser. [1913 Webster]
- 2. An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge. [1913 Webster]
- Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man. --Macaulay. [1913 Webster]
- 3. (Law) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment. [1913 Webster]
- 4. Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment. --Locke. [1913 Webster]
- England and France might, through their amity, Breed him some prejudice. --Shak. [1913 Webster]
- Syn: Prejudgment; prepossession; bias; harm; hurt; damage; detriment; mischief; disadvantage. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prejudice'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- a thing for,
- abuse,
- affinity,
- afflict,
- aggrieve,
- angle,
- apartheid,
- aptitude,
- aptness,
- bag,
- befoul,
- bend,
- bent,
- bewitch,
- bias,
- bigotry,
- blemish,
- blight,
- cast,
- chosen kind,
- color,
- conatus,
- condemn,
- conduciveness,
- corrupt,
- cronyism,
- crucify,
- cup of tea,
- curse,
- damage,
- defile,
- delight,
- deprave,
- despoil,
- destroy,
- detriment,
- diathesis,
- disadvantage,
- discrimination,
- dispose,
- disposition,
- disserve,
- distort,
- distress,
- do a mischief,
- do evil,
- do ill,
- do wrong,
- do wrong by,
- doom,
- drawback,
- druthers,
- eagerness,
- envenom,
- fancy,
- favor,
- favoritism,
- feeling for,
- forejudgment,
- get into trouble,
- handicap,
- harass,
- harm,
- hex,
- hurt,
- impair,
- impairment,
- inclination,
- incline,
- inequality,
- infect,
- influence,
- injure,
- injury,
- intolerance,
- jaundice,
- jaundiced eye,
- jinx,
- leaning,
- liability,
- liking,
- loss,
- loss of ground,
- male chauvinism,
- maltreat,
- mar,
- menace,
- mischief,
- mistreat,
- molest,
- one-sidedness,
- outrage,
- parti pris,
- partialism,
- partiality,
- particular choice,
- partisanship,
- penchant,
- persecute,
- personal choice,
- play havoc with,
- play hob with,
- poison,
- pollute,
- preapprehension,
- preconception,
- preconclusion,
- preconsideration,
- predecision,
- predetermination,
- predilection,
- predispose,
- predisposition,
- preference,
- prejudge,
- prejudgment,
- prejudication,
- prejudice against,
- prejudice the issue,
- premature judgment,
- prenotion,
- prepossess,
- prepossession,
- presumption,
- presupposal,
- presupposition,
- presurmise,
- probability,
- proclivity,
- proneness,
- propensity,
- racialism,
- racism,
- readiness,
- savage,
- scathe,
- sensitivity to,
- sexism,
- skew,
- slant,
- soft spot,
- spoil,
- step backward,
- style,
- susceptibility,
- sway,
- taint,
- tarnish,
- taste,
- tendency,
- thing,
- threaten,
- torment,
- torture,
- tropism,
- turn,
- twist,
- type,
- undetachment,
- undispassionateness,
- unfairness,
- violate,
- vitiate,
- warp,
- weakness,
- willingness,
- wound,
- wreak havoc on,
- wrong