Prejudice
['predʒʊdɪs] or ['prɛdʒədɪs]
Definition
(verb.) influence (somebody's) opinion in advance.
(verb.) disadvantage by prejudice.
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Definition
(n.) Foresight.
(n.) 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.
(n.) A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.
(n.) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
(n.) 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.
(n.) 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.
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Synonyms and Synonymous
n. [1]. Prejudgment, prepossession, bias.[2]. Harm, mischief, hurt, detriment, injury, damage, disadvantage.
v. a. [1]. Bias, warp, prepossess.[2]. Injure, damage, hurt, impair.
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Synonyms and Antonyms
SYN:Prepossession, prejudgment, predisposition, bias, unfairness, injury, harm,impairment, detriment, partiality, disadvantage, damage
ANT:Judgment, fairness, impartiality, advantage
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Definition
n. a judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without due examination: a prejudgment: unreasonable prepossession for or against anything: bias: injury or wrong of any kind: disadvantage: mischief.—v.t. to fill with prejudice: to cause a prejudice against: to prepossess: to bias the mind of: to injure or hurt.—adj. Prejudi′cial causing prejudice or injury: disadvantageous: injurious: mischievous: tending to obstruct.—adv. Prejudi′cially.—n. Prejudi′cialness.
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Unserious Contents or Definition
n. A vagrant opinion without visible means of support.
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Examples
- He regarded it as a mixture of jealousy and dunderheaded prejudice. George Eliot. Middlemarch.
- And never allow yourself to be blinded by prejudice? Jane Austen. Pride and Prejudice.
- Not, I assure you, from any national prejudice in their favour; but, Frenchwomen are my aversion, generally speaking. Harriette Wilson. The Memoirs of Harriette Wilson.
- You are entirely wrong, sir, I said, in supposing that I speak from any prejudice against Sir Percival Glyde. Wilkie Collins. The Woman in White.
- You should take care of prejudice. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I can no longer think of you to your prejudice--I am but too much absorbed in justifying you. Thomas Hardy. The Return of the Native.
- This I mention as an instance of the great power of habit and prejudice. Jonathan Swift. Gulliver's Travels into Several Remote Nations of the World.
- She persisted until she finally conquered the elephant's prejudices, and now they are inseparable friends. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- Mamma thought the dear too young to be taught to conquer his prejudices, but Papa believed that it never was too soon to learn obedience. Louisa May Alcott. Little Women.
- How the fatigues and annoyances of travel fill one with bitter prejudices sometimes! Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- So debating becomes a way of confirming your own prejudices; it is never, never in any debate I have suffered through, a search for understanding from the angles of two differing insights. Walter Lippmann. A Preface to Politics.
- The prejudices of some political writers against shopkeepers and tradesmen are altogether without foundation. Adam Smith. An Inquiry into the Nature and Causes of the Wealth of Nations.
- More is as free as Plato from the prejudices of his age, and far more tolerant. Plato. The Republic.
- The worst thing about stubbornness of mind, about prejudices, is that they arrest development; they shut the mind off from new stimuli. John Dewey. Democracy and Education.
- She was audaciously prejudiced in my favour, and quite unable to understand why I should have any misgivings, or be low-spirited about it. Charles Dickens. David Copperfield.
- A great many persons are prejudiced against hair oils, but they have been used for ages, and will continue to be used. William K. David. Secrets of Wise Men, Chemists and Great Physicians.
- There never was a community so prejudiced against the cholera as these Neapolitans are. Mark Twain. The Innocents Abroad.
- I am not prejudiced. Jane Austen. Emma.
- You are quite prejudiced against Mr. Thornton, Margaret. Elizabeth Cleghorn Gaskell. North and South.
- Leave the prejudiced old Scotchman; go away. Charlotte Bronte. Villette.
- I will not deny, but I have no unaccommodating prejudiced habits. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
- But without prejudicing the appointment that stands for this day week. Charles Dickens. Little Dorrit.
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