prepossess as a verb: - 1
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prepossess
verb
1 prepossess
2 prepossess
3 prepossess
Make a positive impression (on someone) beforehand.
4 prepossess
Influence (somebody's) opinion in advance.
synonym: prejudice.
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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prepossessed
adjective
Roget 606:
obstinate,
tenacious,
stubborn,
obdurate,
casehardened;
inflexible
etc.
(hard)
323;
balky;
immovable,
unshakable,
not to be moved;
inert
etc.
172;
unchangeable
etc.
150;
inexorable
etc.
(determined)
604;
mulish,
obstinate as a mule,
pig-headed.
dogged;
sullen,
sulky;
unmoved,
uninfluenced unaffected.
willful,
self-willed,
perverse;
resty†,
restive,
restiff†;
pervicacious†,
wayward,
refractory,
unruly;
heady,
headstrong;
entete [Fr.];
contumacious;
crossgrained†.
arbitrary,
dogmatic,
positive,
bigoted;
prejudiced
etc.
481;
creed-bound;
prepossessed,
infatuated;
stiff-backed,
stiff necked,
stiff hearted;
hard-mouthed,
hidebound;
unyielding;
impervious,
impracticable,
inpersuasible†;
unpersuadable;
intractable,
untractable†;
incorrigible,
deaf to advice,
impervious to reason;
crotchety
etc.
608.
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