'Prepossessed' definitions:
Definition of 'Prepossessed'
From: GCIDE
- Prepossess \Pre`pos*sess"\, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prepossessed; p. pr. & vb. n. Prepossessing.] [1913 Webster]
- 1. To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of. --Dryden. [1913 Webster]
- 2. To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give a previous inclination to, for or against anything; esp., to induce a favorable opinion beforehand, or at the outset. [1913 Webster]
- It created him enemies, and prepossessed the lord general. --Evelyn. [1913 Webster]
Synonyms of 'prepossessed'
From: Moby Thesaurus
- antiblack,
- besotted,
- biased,
- bicolored,
- chauvinistic,
- colored,
- doctrinaire,
- dogmatic,
- fixated,
- gripped,
- held,
- hung-up,
- infatuated,
- influenced,
- interested,
- jaundiced,
- know-nothing,
- monomaniac,
- monomaniacal,
- nonobjective,
- obsessed,
- one-sided,
- opinionated,
- partial,
- partisan,
- possessed,
- prejudiced,
- preoccupied,
- racist,
- sexist,
- superpatriotic,
- swayed,
- tendentious,
- twisted,
- ultranationalist,
- undetached,
- undispassionate,
- warped,
- xenophobic