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.
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The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48
prejudicial
adj : (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, prejudicious]
WordNet (r) 2.0
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
Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0
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