Prejudice

Noun

 * 1) An adverse judgement or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
 * 2) Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
 * 3) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.
 * 4) The damage caused by such fear or hatred.
 * 5)  Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.
 * , II.ix:
 * the first did in the forepart sit, / That nought mote hinder his quicke preiudize: / He had a sharpe foresight, and working wit [...].

Verb

 * 1)  To have a negative impact on someone's position, chances etc.
 * 2)  To cause prejudice.

Adjectives for Prejudice
antique; arrogant; feudal; vile; personal-violent; popular; abandoned; tender; ingrained; sectional;  unworthy;  virulent; vulgar; unflinching; established; unreflect-ive; aristocratical; tainted; logical; conservative; superficial; pious; unconscious; tribal; present; frivolous; patrician; ignorant senile; unreasonable; miserable; political tenacious; sexual; bitter; undue; absorbing intense; inveterate; imperial; unfounded entrenched; fierce; social; furious; insular religious; economic; invincible; superstitious.

Verbs for Prejudice
arouse—; awaken—; beget—; beset with—; break down—; combat—; defy—; dictate by—; emancipate from—; erase—; exploit —; lampoon—; nourish—; oust—; pander to—; preach—; purge of—; shed—; subserve—; survive—; —distorts; —nourishes; —influences;  —persists;   —poisons;   — shades; —vanishes; —undermines; —weakens.

Adverbs for Prejudice
hopelessly; personally; violently; sectionally; vulgarly; aristocratically; logically; unconsciously; ignorantly; irrationally; sexually; socially; inveterately; religiously; economically; superstitiously; politically.

Thesaurus
a thing for, abuse, affinity, afflict, aggrieve, angle, apartheid, aptitude, aptness, bag, befoul, bend, bent, bewitch, bias, bigotry, blemish, blight, cast, chosen kind, color, conatus, condemn, conduciveness, corrupt, cronyism, crucify, cup of tea, curse, damage, defile, delight, deprave, despoil, destroy, detriment, diathesis, disadvantage, discrimination, dispose, disposition, disserve, distort, distress, do a mischief, do evil, do ill, do wrong, do wrong by, doom, drawback, druthers, eagerness, envenom, fancy, favor, favoritism, feeling for, forejudgment, get into trouble, handicap, harass, harm, hex, hurt, impair, impairment, inclination, incline, inequality, infect, influence, injure, injury, intolerance, jaundice, jaundiced eye, jinx, leaning, liability, liking, loss, loss of ground, male chauvinism, maltreat, mar, menace, mischief, mistreat, molest, one-sidedness, outrage, parti pris, partialism, partiality, particular choice, partisanship, penchant, persecute, personal choice, play havoc with, play hob with, poison, pollute, preapprehension, preconception, preconclusion, preconsideration, predecision, predetermination, predilection, predispose, predisposition, preference, prejudge, prejudgment, prejudication, prejudice against, prejudice the issue, premature judgment, prenotion, prepossess, prepossession, presumption, presupposal, presupposition, presurmise, probability, proclivity, proneness, propensity, racialism, racism, readiness, savage, scathe, sensitivity to, sexism, skew, slant, soft spot, spoil, step backward, style, susceptibility, sway, taint, tarnish, taste, tendency, thing, threaten, torment, torture, tropism, turn, twist, type, undetachment, undispassionateness, unfairness, violate, vitiate, warp, weakness, willingness, wound, wreak havoc on, wrong

Alternative forms

 * præjudice

Etymology
From préjudice, from  praeiudicium:, from prae-: + iudicium:.

Noun

 * Arabic: تحيز
 * Chinese:
 * Mandarin: 成見, 成见,  ,
 * Czech:
 * Dutch: bevooroordelen
 * Estonian: eelarvamus
 * Finnish:
 * French:
 * German: ,
 * Greek:
 * Hungarian:


 * Japanese:, 僻見,
 * Norwegian: fordom
 * Polish: uprzedzenie
 * Portuguese:
 * Romanian: prejudecată
 * Russian:, , предвзятость
 * Serbian:
 * Spanish:
 * Swedish:


 * Czech:
 * Dutch:
 * Finnish: ennakkokäsitys
 * French:, idée
 * German:
 * Hungarian: elfogultság


 * Japanese: 先入観 (せんにゅうかん, sen'nyūkan)
 * Norwegian: fordom
 * Romanian: prejudecată
 * Russian: ,
 * Serbian:


 * Finnish: ennakkoluuloisuus, ennakkoluulo
 * Greek:


 * Hungarian:
 * Serbian:


 * French:
 * Romanian: prejudiciu, daună


 * Russian: ,


 * uprzedzenie
 * prejuicio

Derived terms

 * without prejudice - without affecting a legal interest
 * in prejudice of - to the detriment or injury of
 * to the prejudice of - with resulting harm to

Verb

 * Finnish: ,
 * Portuguese:


 * Romanian: prejudicia


 * Finnish: tehdä ennakkoluuloiseksi
 * Portuguese: prejudicar


 * Romanian: dăuna, prejudicia

Related terms

 * prejudge
 * prejudiced