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PREJUDICED
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I. (adjective)
Sense 1
Meaning:
Being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand
Example:
a prejudiced judge
Synonyms:
discriminatory; prejudiced
Classified under:
Similar:
homophobic (prejudiced against homosexual people)
jaundiced (showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste)
loaded ((of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence)
anti-Semite; antiblack; racist (discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion)
sexist (discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men's attitude toward women))
Antonym:
unprejudiced (free from undue bias or preconceived opinions)
Sense 2
Meaning:
Emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices
Classified under:
Similar:
subjective (taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias)
II. (verb)
Sense 1
Past simple / past participle of the verb prejudice
Context examples:
And now, having demonstrated this important conclusion so that it is clear to anyone, however prejudiced or obtuse, I am of opinion that we cannot do better than break up our camp and travel to westward until we find some means of ascent.
(The Lost World, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)
I had a feeling that she wished me away: that she did not understand me or my circumstances; that she was prejudiced against me.
(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)
Perhaps she pitied and esteemed him the more because he was slighted by Willoughby and Marianne, who, prejudiced against him for being neither lively nor young, seemed resolved to undervalue his merits.
(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)
She was audaciously prejudiced in my favour, and quite unable to understand why I should have any misgivings, or be low-spirited about it.
(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)
How kind and generous you are! every one else believes in her guilt, and that made me wretched, for I knew that it was impossible: and to see every one else prejudiced in so deadly a manner rendered me hopeless and despairing.
(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)
Prejudiced! I am not prejudiced.
(Emma, by Jane Austen)
