| The American Heritage® Dictionary of the English Language: Fourth Edition. 2000. |
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| SYLLABICATION: | prej·u·dice |
| PRONUNCIATION: |  pr j  -d s |
| NOUN: | 1a. An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge or examination of the facts. b. A preconceived preference or idea. 2. The act or state of holding unreasonable preconceived judgments or convictions. See synonyms at predilection. 3. Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, or religion. 4. Detriment or injury caused to a person by the preconceived, unfavorable conviction of another or others. | | TRANSITIVE VERB: | Inflected forms: prej·u·diced, prej·u·dic·ing, prej·u·dic·es
1. To cause (someone) to judge prematurely and irrationally. See synonyms at bias. 2. To affect injuriously or detrimentally by a judgment or an act. | | ETYMOLOGY: | Middle English, from Old French, from Latin praei dicium : prae-, pre- + idicium, judgment (from idex, idic-, judge; see deik- in Appendix I).
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