prejudicial

3 definitions found

prejudicial - Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 :

  Prejudicial \Prej`u*di"cial\, a. [L. praejudicialis belonging to
     a preceding judgment: cf. F. pr['e]judiciel.]
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     1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look
        with a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] --Holyday.
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     2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious;
        disadvantageous; detrimental. --Hooker.
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              His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most
              ruinous to the king's affairs.        --Clarendon.
        [1913 Webster] -- Prej`u*di"cial*ly, adv. --
        Prej`u*di"cial*ness, n.
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prejudicial - WordNet (r) 2.1 (2005) :

  prejudicial
      adj 1: (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury;
             "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's
             coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the
             defendant" [syn: damaging, detrimental,
             prejudicial, prejudicious]
      2: tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of
         discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white
         population" [syn: prejudicial, prejudicious]

prejudicial - Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 :

  61 Moby Thesaurus words for "prejudicial":
     bad, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corrupting,
     corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious,
     detrimental, differential, disadvantageous, discriminative,
     disserviceable, distressing, evil, forejudged, harmful, hurtful,
     inimical, injurious, judged beforehand, lethal, malefic,
     malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious,
     ominous, pernicious, poisonous, preconceived, preconceptual,
     preconcluded, predecided, predetermined, predisposed,
     predispositional, prejudged, prejudging, presumed, presupposed,
     presurmised, scatheful, toxic, unadvantageous, unfavorable,
     unprofitable, unrewarding, useless, venenate, veneniferous,
     venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless