Synonyms of prejudicial

prejudicial

adjective

1

as in detrimental

causing or capable of causing harm

pretrial publicity that may be extremely prejudicial to a defendant's right to a fair trial

Synonyms & Similar Words

• detrimental
• harmful
• adverse
• damaging
• dangerous
• bad
• injurious
• hazardous
• deleterious
• pernicious
• poisonous
• hurtful
• infectious
• evil
• noxious
• baneful
• mischievous
• wicked
• ill
• hostile
• nocuous
• baleful
• destructive
• unsafe
• deadly
• inimical
• venomous
• infective
• sinister
• unfriendly
• threatening
• risky
• lethal
• ominous
• insidious
• contagious
• menacing
• perilous
• fatal
• unsound
• unwholesome
• pestilential
• pestiferous
• unhealthy
• unhealthful
• ruinous
• malignant
• pestilent
• imperilling
• killer
• imperiling
• jeopardizing
• parlous
• nasty
• noisome

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• harmless
• innocent
• beneficial
• benign
• innocuous
• safe
• useful
• advantageous
• favorable
• inoffensive
• good
• helpful
• propitious
• salutary
• wholesome
• remedial
• anodyne
• healthy
• healthful
• curative
• salubrious
• sound
• palliative
• hurtless
• secure
• benignant
• noninfectious
• nondestructive
• nonfatal
• nontoxic
• noncorrosive
• nonpoisonous
• nonlethal
• nonpolluting
• nonvenomous

2

as in adverse

opposed to one's interests

the defense will try to counterbalance the mass of prejudicial evidence presented by the prosecution

Synonyms & Similar Words

• adverse
• negative
• unfavorable
• hostile
• detrimental
• harmful
• damaging
• destructive
• disadvantageous
• threatening
• inimical
• bad
• unfriendly
• dangerous
• unsympathetic
• hazardous
• untoward
• counter
• injurious
• risky
• offensive
• conflicting
• poisonous
• unsafe
• deleterious
• pernicious
• hurtful
• evil
• troublesome
• baneful
• opposing
• fatal
• lethal
• ruinous
• noxious
• malignant
• unhealthy
• murderous
• perilous
• defamatory
• antagonistic
• slanderous
• ill
• baleful
• intolerant
• uncongenial
• resistant
• inhospitable
• scathing
• imperilling
• uncooperative
• resisting
• calumnious
• detractive
• wounding
• imperiling
• antipathetic
• jeopardizing
• parlous
• competing
• counteracting
• countering

Antonyms & Near Antonyms

• favorable
• positive
• advantageous
• sympathetic
• beneficial
• friendly
• useful
• supportive
• good
• helpful
• harmless
• innocent
• propitious
• innocuous
• inoffensive
• nonthreatening
• nondestructive
• well-disposed
• nonfatal
• tolerant
• agreeable
• benign
• congenial
• friendly
• understanding
• amiable
• hospitable
• nonlethal
• cordial
• complying
• affable
• unresistant
• amicable
• benignant