prejudice as a noun: - 1
as a verb: - 1
- 2
prejudice
noun
1 prejudice
A partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation.
synonyms: bias, preconception.
Roget 619:
evil,
ill,
harm,
hurt. ,
mischief,
nuisance;
machinations of the devil,
Pandora's box,
ills that flesh is heir to.
blow,
buffet,
stroke,
scratch,
bruise,
wound,
gash,
mutilation;
mortal blow,
wound;
immedicabile vulnus [Lat.];
damage,
loss
etc.
(deterioration)
659.
disadvantage,
prejudice,
drawback.
disaster,
accident,
casualty;
mishap
etc.
(misfortune)
735;
bad job,
devil to pay;
calamity,
bale,
catastrophe,
tragedy;
ruin
etc.
(destruction)
162;
adversity
etc.
735.
mental suffering
etc.
828.
demon
etc.
980.
(Evil spirit)
bane,
etc.
663
(cause of evil).
badness,
etc.
649
(Production of Evil);
painfulness,
etc.
830;
evil doer,
etc.
913.
outrage,
wrong,
injury,
foul play;
bad turn,
ill turn;
disservice,
spoliation
etc.
791;
grievance,
crying evil.
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Roget 481:
misjudgment,
obliquity of judgment;
miscalculation,
miscomputation,
misconception
etc.
(error)
495;
hasty conclusion.
[causes of misjudgment. 1]
prejudgment,
prejudication†,
prejudice;
foregone conclusion;
prenotion†,
prevention,
preconception,
predilection,
prepossession,
preapprehension†,
presumption,
assumption,
presentiment;
fixed idea,
preconceived idea;
id_ee fixe;
mentis gratissimus error [Lat.];
fool's paradise.
[causes of misjudgment. 2]
esprit de corps,
party spirit,
partisanship,
clannishness,
prestige.
[causes of misjudgment. 3]
bias,
bigotry,
warp,
twist;
hobby,
fad,
quirk,
crotchet,
partiality,
infatuation,
blind side,
mote in the eye.
[causes of misjudgment. 4]
one-sided views,
one-track mind,
partial views,
narrow views,
confined views,
superficial views,
one-sided ideas,
partial ideas,
narrow ideas,
confined ideas,
superficial ideas,
one-sided conceptions,
partial conceptions,
narrow conceptions,
confined conceptions,
superficial conceptions,
one-sided notions,
partial notions,
narrow notions,
confined notions,
superficial notions;
narrow mind;
bigotry
etc.
(obstinacy)
606;
odium theologicum [Lat.];
pedantry;
hypercriticism.
doctrinaire
etc.
(positive)
474.
[causes of misjudgment. 5]
overestimation
etc.
482;
underestimation
etc.
483.
[causes of misjudgment. 6]
ignorance
etc.
491.
erroneous assumptions,
erroneous data,
mistaken assumptions,
incorrect assumptions
(error)
495.
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Dutch: bevooroordelen, neiging, partijdigheid, partijschap, vooroordeel
Polish: tendencyjność
verb
1 prejudice
Disadvantage by prejudice.
2 prejudice
Influence (somebody's) opinion in advance.
synonym: prepossess.
Roget 481:
misjudge,
misestimate,
misthink†,
misconjecture†,
misconceive
etc.
(error)
495;
fly in the face of facts;
miscalculate,
misreckon,
miscompute.
overestimate
etc.
482;
underestimate
etc.
483.
prejudge,
forejudge;
presuppose,
presume,
prejudicate†;
dogmatize;
have a bias
etc.
n.;
have only one idea;
jurare in verba magistri [Lat.],
run away with the notion;
jump to a conclusion,
rush to a conclusion,
leap to a conclusion,
judge hastily,
shoot from the hip,
jump to conclusions;
look only at one side of the shield;
view with jaundiced eye,
view through distorting spectacles;
not see beyond one's nose;
dare pondus fumo [Lat.];
get the wrong sow by the ear
etc.
(blunder)
699.
give a bias,
give a twist;
bias,
warp,
twist;
prejudice,
prepossess.
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adjective
Roget 659:
unimproved
etc.
(improve)
etc.
658;
deteriorated
etc.
v.;
altered,
altered for the worse;
injured
etc.
v.;
sprung;
withering,
spoiling
etc.
v.;
on the wane,
on the decline;
tabid†;
degenerate;
marescent†;
worse;
the worse for,
all the worse for;
out of repair,
out of tune;
imperfect
etc.
651;
the worse for wear;
battered;
weathered,
weather-beaten;
stale,
passe,
shaken,
dilapidated,
frayed,
faded,
wilted,
shabby,
secondhand,
threadbare;
worn,
worn to a thread,
worn to a shadow,
worn to the stump,
worn to rags;
reduced,
reduced to a skeleton;
far gone;
tacky [U.S.].
decayed
etc.
v.;
moth-eaten,
worm-eaten;
mildewed,
rusty,
moldy,
spotted,
seedy,
time-worn,
moss-grown;
discolored;
effete,
wasted,
crumbling,
moldering,
rotten,
cankered,
blighted,
tainted;
depraved
etc.
(vicious)
945;
decrepid†,
decrepit;
broke,
busted,
broken,
out of commission,
hors de combat [Fr.],
out of action,
broken down;
done,
done for,
done up;
worn out,
used up,
finished;
beyond saving,
fit for the dust hole,
fit for the wastepaper basket,
past work
etc.
(useless)
645.
at a low ebb,
in a bad way,
on one's last legs;
undermined,
deciduous;
nodding to its fall
etc.
(destruction)
162;
tottering
etc.
(dangerous)
665;
past cure
etc.
(hopeless)
859;
fatigued
etc.
688;
retrograde
etc.
(retrogressive)
283;
deleterious
etc.
649.
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