Thesaurus: prejudice

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1. n. Foresight.
2. n. An opinion or judgment formed without due examination; prejudgment; a leaning toward one side of a question from other considerations than those belonging to it; an unreasonable predilection for, or objection against, anything; especially, an opinion or leaning adverse to anything, without just grounds, or before sufficient knowledge.
3. n. A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interferes with fairness of judgment.
4. n. Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
5. n. 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.
6. n. 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.
7. n. a partiality that prevents objective consideration of an issue or situation
8. v. disadvantage by prejudice
9. v. influence (somebody's) opinion in advance
10. A bias on the part of judge, juror, or witness which interfereswith fairness of judgment.
11. v:8/n:92 v. disadvantage by prejudice v. influence (somebody's) opinion in advance