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Prejudiced definitions

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Webster's 1828 Dictionary

PREJ'UDICED, pp. or a. Prepossessed by unexamined opinions; biased.

WordNet (r) 3.0 (2005)

adj
1: emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices
2: being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand; "a prejudiced judge" [syn: prejudiced, discriminatory] [ant: impartial, unprejudiced]

Merriam Webster's

adjective Date: 1579 resulting from or having a prejudice or bias for or especially against

Webster's 1913 Dictionary

Prejudice Prej"u*dice, v. t. [imp. & p. p. Prejudiced; p. pr. & vb. n. Prejudicing.] [Cf. F. pr['e]judicier. See Prejudice, n.] 1. 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. Suffer not any beloved study to prejudice your mind so far as to despise all other learning. --I. Watts 2. 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. Seek how may prejudice the foe. --Shak

Collin's Cobuild Dictionary

A person who is prejudiced against someone has an unreasonable dislike of them. A person who is prejudiced in favour of someone has an unreasonable preference for them. Some landlords and landladies are racially prejudiced... ADJ: usu v-link ADJ

Soule's Dictionary of English Synonyms

a. Biassed, bigoted, wedded to an opinion, unfair, partial, partisan, one-sided.

Moby Thesaurus

antiblack, biased, bigoted, chauvinistic, closed-minded, colored, doctrinaire, dogmatic, influenced, interested, intolerant, jaundiced, know-nothing, narrow-minded, nonobjective, one-sided, opinionated, parochial, partial, partisan, predisposed, prepossessed, racist, sexist, superpatriotic, swayed, tendentious, twisted, ultranationalist, undetached, undispassionate, unfair, warped, xenophobic