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prejudiced

adjectiveB2Common in everyday speech and writing · #6,186 of 15,258neutral

Prejudiced means judging people before knowing anything about them. Deeply prejudiced, prejudiced against them, a prejudiced view.

The word says exactly what it means: a pre-judgement made in advance of the evidence. It takes against or in favour of, and prejudiced in somebody's favour is just as much a prejudice, which people forget.

Definitions of prejudiced

  1. 1adjectiveprejudicedJudging people before knowing anything about them.B2

    “Some landlords are prejudiced against young people and refuse to rent to students.”

prejudiced is a quality.

Where it comes from

  1. Latin

    praeiūdicium — previous judgment or damage

  2. Old French

    prejudice

  3. Middle English

    prejudice

  4. English

    prejudice

  5. English, today

    prejudiced

Built from

  • prae- · Latin — before
  • iūdicium · Latin — judgment

prejudice comes from Middle English prejudice, from Old French prejudice, derived from Latin praeiūdicium (“previous judgment or damage”), from prae- (“before”) + iūdicium (“judgment”).

Etymology from Wiktionary, CC BY-SA

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prejudiced in the wild

  • A Hungarian Professor refugee (Paul Lukas) then tells Mike how the same prejudiced beliefs led to the rise of fascism in Germany.

    Don't Be a Sucker

  • The film shows that all members of the jury are somehow prejudiced because of personal life experience and subsequently each member reads something different into the presented facts.

    Justice Is Done

  • The phrase can also be used to describe a prejudiced judge.

    Frontier justice

  • In 1982 Baldwin created a database of professionals who knew about and were not prejudiced against kink and BDSM, called the Kink Aware Professionals list (KAP list).

    Guy Baldwin

  • Armstrong condemns the West for being prejudiced about Islam since the Crusades, yet writing about present-day Muslims.

    Islam: A Short History

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From Wikipedia, CC BY-SA 4.0. These sentences were written by other people about their own subjects; they are here to show the word at work, not as anybody’s opinion.

Related words

the iūdicium family

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