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1. (n.) prejudice
an unfavorable opinion or feeling formed beforehand or without knowledge, thought, or reason.
2. prejudice
any preconceived opinion or feeling, either favorable or unfavorable.
3. prejudice
unreasonable feelings, opinions, or attitudes, esp. of a hostile nature, regarding a racial, religious, or national group.
4. prejudice
such attitudes considered collectively:
The war against prejudice is never-ending.
5. prejudice
damage or injury; detriment:
a law that operated to the prejudice of the majority.
6. (v.t.) prejudice
to affect with a prejudice.
Etymology: (1250–1300; ME < OF < L praejūdicium prejudgment, orig. preliminary or previous judicial inquiry)
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| Definition of 'Prejudice' |
Princeton's WordNet |
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1. (verb) bias, prejudice, preconception
a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
2. (verb) prejudice
disadvantage by prejudice
3. (verb) prejudice, prepossess
influence (somebody's) opinion in advance
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1. (noun) prejudice
an unreasonable attitude toward sb or sth
his prejudice against foreign-made products; prejudices about older employees
2. (verb) prejudice
to influence sb's thinking, so that they have a prejudice
The prosecutor prejudiced the jury against the defendant.
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| Definition of 'Prejudice' |
Webster Dictionary |
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1. (noun) Prejudice
foresight
2. (noun) Prejudice
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
3. (noun) Prejudice
a bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment
4. (noun) Prejudice
mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment
5. (noun) Prejudice
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
6. (noun) Prejudice
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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| Definition of 'Prejudice' |
U.S. National Library of Medicine |
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1. Prejudice
A preconceived judgment made without adequate evidence and not easily alterable by presentation of contrary evidence.
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Sense: (an) opinion or feeling for or especially against something, formed unfairly or unreasonably ie without proper knowledge
The jury must listen to his statement without prejudice; Is racial prejudice (= dislike of people because of their race) increasing in this country?
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 Afrikaans: vooroordeel |
 Arabic: تَحَيُّز، مُحاباه، تَحامُ |
 Bulgarian: предубеждение |
 Brazilian: preconceito |
 Czech: předsudek |
 German: das Vorurteil |
 Danish: forudindtagethed |
 Greek: προκατάληψη |
 Spanish: prejuicio |
 Estonian: eelarvamus |
 Farsi: پیشداوری؛ تعصب |
 Finnish: ennakkoluulo |
 French: préjugé |
 Hebrew: דֵעָה קְדוּמָה |
 Hindi: पूर्वाग्रह, पूर्वधारणा, प |
 Croatian: presuda |
 Hungarian: előítélet |
 Indonesian: prasangka |
 Icelandic: fordómar |
 Italian: pregiudizio |
 Japanese: 偏見 |
 Korean: 편견 |
 Lithuanian: išankstinis nusistatymas, |
 Latvian: aizspriedums |
 Malay: prasangka |
 Dutch: vooroordeel |
 Norwegian: fordom |
 Polish: uprzedzenie |
 Persian: پیشداوری؛ تعصب |
 Pashto: تعصب، د مخكى نه قضاوت |
 Portuguese: preconceito |
 Romanian: prejudecată |
 Russian: предубеждение |
 Slovak: predsudok |
 Slovenian: predsodek; prejudic |
 Serbian: predrasuda |
 Swedish: fördom[ar] |
 Thai: อคติ |
 Turkish: ön yargı |
 Taiwanese: 偏見 |
 Ukrainian: упередження; забобон |
 Urdu: تعصب، بدگماني |
 Vietnamese: thành kiến |
 Chinese: 偏见 |
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