Synonyms of the word prejudice


PREJUDICEBIAS - DISADVANTAGE - DISFAVOR - DISFAVOUR - INFLUENCE - PARTIALITY - PARTISANSHIP - PRECONCEPTION - PREPOSSESS - WORK

prejudice

  • n. (countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
  • n. (countable) Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
  • n. (countable) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.
  • n. (obsolete) Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.
  • n. (obsolete) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
  • v. (transitive) To have a negative impact on someone's position, chances etc.
  • v. (transitive) To cause prejudice.

bias

  • n. (countable, uncountable) inclination towards something; predisposition, partiality, prejudice, preference,…
  • n. (countable, textiles) the diagonal line between warp and weft in a woven fabric.
  • n. (countable, textiles) A wedge-shaped piece of cloth taken out of a garment (such as the waist of a dress)…
  • n. (electronics) a voltage or current applied for example to a transistor electrode.
  • n. (statistics) the difference between the expectation of the sample estimator and the true population value,…
  • n. (sports) In the game of crown green bowls: a weight added to one side of a bowl so that as it rolls, it…
  • n. (fandom slang) A person's favourite member of a K-pop band.
  • v. (transitive) To place bias upon; to influence.
  • adj. Inclined to one side; swelled on one side.
  • adj. Cut slanting or diagonally, as cloth.
  • adv. In a slanting manner; crosswise; obliquely; diagonally.

disadvantage

  • n. A weakness or undesirable characteristic; a con.
  • n. A setback or handicap.
  • n. Loss; detriment; hindrance.
  • v. (transitive) To place at a disadvantage.

disfavor

  • n. US spelling of disfavour.
  • v. US spelling of disfavour.

disfavour

  • n. The state of being out of favour.
  • n. An unkindness; a disobliging act.
  • v. To show lack of favour or antipathy towards.

influence

  • n. The power to affect, control or manipulate something or someone; the ability to change the development…
  • n. An action exerted by a person or thing with such power on another to cause change.
  • n. A person or thing exerting such power or action.
  • n. (astrology) An element believed to determine someone's character or individual tendencies, caused by the…
  • n. (obsolete) The action of flowing in; influx.
  • n. (electricity) Electrostatic induction.
  • v. (transitive) To have an affect on using gentle or subtle action; to exert an influence upon; to modify,…
  • v. (intransitive) To exert, make use of one's influence.
  • v. (transitive, obsolete) To cause to flow in or into; infuse; instill.

partiality

  • n. Preference, bias in favor of, tendency.

partisanship

  • n. An inclination to be partisan or biased; partiality.

preconception

  • n. An opinion formed before obtaining adequate evidence, especially as the result of bias or prejudice.
  • n. A prejudice that prevents rational consideration of an issue.

prepossess

  • v. To preoccupy, as ground or land; to take previous possession of.
  • v. To preoccupy, as the mind or heart, so as to preclude other things; hence, to bias or prejudice; to give…

work

  • n. (heading, uncountable) Employment.
  • n. (heading, uncountable) Effort.
  • n. Sustained effort to achieve a goal or result, especially overcoming obstacles.
  • n. (heading) Product; the result of effort.
  • n. (uncountable, slang, professional wrestling) The staging of events to appear as real.
  • n. (mining) Ore before it is dressed.
  • v. (intransitive) To do a specific task by employing physical or mental powers.
  • v. (transitive) To effect by gradual degrees.
  • v. (transitive) To embroider with thread.
  • v. (transitive) To set into action.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to ferment.
  • v. (intransitive) To ferment.
  • v. (transitive) To exhaust, by working.
  • v. (transitive) To shape, form, or improve a material.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in a certain place, area, or speciality.
  • v. (transitive) To operate in or through; as, to work the phones.
  • v. (transitive) To provoke or excite; to influence.
  • v. (transitive) To use or manipulate to one’s advantage.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to happen or to occur as a consequence.
  • v. (transitive) To cause to work.
  • v. (intransitive) To function correctly; to act as intended; to achieve the goal designed for.
  • v. (intransitive, figuratively) To influence.
  • v. (intransitive) To effect by gradual degrees; as, to work into the earth.
  • v. (intransitive) To move in an agitated manner.
  • v. (intransitive) To behave in a certain way when handled;.
  • v. (transitive, with two objects, poetic) To cause (someone) to feel (something).
  • v. (obsolete, intransitive) To hurt; to ache.

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