Definition of Prejudice

1. Noun. A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation.


2. Verb. Disadvantage by prejudice.
Category relationships: Justice
Generic synonyms: Disadvantage, Disfavor, Disfavour

3. Verb. Influence (somebody's) opinion in advance.
Exact synonyms: Prepossess
Specialized synonyms: Bias, Predetermine, Bias
Generic synonyms: Act Upon, Influence, Work
Derivative terms: Prepossession

Definition of Prejudice

1. n. Foresight.

2. v. t. 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.

Definition of Prejudice

1. Noun. An adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts. ¹

2. Noun. Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative. ¹

3. Noun. An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion. ¹

4. Noun. The damage caused by such fear or hatred. ¹

5. Noun. (obsolete) Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging. ¹

6. Verb. (transitive) To have a negative impact on someone's position, chances etc. ¹

7. Verb. (transitive) To cause '''prejudice'''. ¹

¹ Source: wiktionary.com

Definition of Prejudice

1. [v -DICED, -DICING, -DICES]

Lexicographical Neighbors of Prejudice

prejudgers
prejudges
prejudging
prejudgment
prejudgments
prejudicacies
prejudicacy
prejudical
prejudicall
prejudicant
prejudicate
prejudicately
prejudication
prejudications
prejudicative
prejudice (current term)
prejudiced
prejudices
prejudicial
prejudicially
prejudicialness
prejudicing
prejudicious
prejump
prekindergarten
prekindergartener
prekindergarteners
prekindergartens
prekindergartner
prekindergartners

Literary usage of Prejudice

Below you will find example usage of this term as found in modern and/or classical literature:

1. The Popular Science Monthly (1890)
"THE PSYCHOLOGY OF prejudice. BY GTW PATRICK, PH. ... It will be quite sufficient for my purpose to consider prejudice as individual deviation from the ..."

2. Science by American Association for the Advancement of Science (1883)
"For scoring purposes the low-prejudice extreme was always coded as +9 and the ... This may be taken to validate the eight-item scale as a prejudice measure ..."

3. Mind in the Lower Animals, in Health and Disease by William Lauder Lindsay (1880)
"CHAPTER I. RESULTS OP HUMAN IGNORANCE, ERROR, AND prejudice. IT may, and probably will, appear to many—perhaps the majority—of my readers a work of ..."

4. The deeper wrong; or, Incidents in the life of a slave girl, written by by Harriet Jacobs, Harriet Brent] [Jacobs (1862)
"prejudice AGAINST COLOR. IT was a relief to my mind to see preparations for leaving the city. We went to Albany in the steamboat Knickerbocker. ..."

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