prejudiced

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adjective

prej·​u·​diced ˈpre-jə-dəst 

: resulting from or having a prejudice or bias for or especially against

prejudiced

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past tense and past participle of prejudice entry 2

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Prejudice: For or Against?

Although prejudice, with its connotations of intolerance , implies a negative bias, the word can be used in positive constructions:

I, too, appreciate projects that treat a difficult subject with rigor, although I'll confess to harboring a bit of prejudice toward thing-biographies.
Adam Baer, Harper's, May 2011

That's true for the participial adjective prejudiced as well:

“The question itself as posed in the survey obviously is prejudiced in favor of the program,” said Tod Story, executive director of the American Civil Liberties Union of Nevada.
Neal Morton, Las Vegas Review Journal, 2 Aug. 2016

In negative constructions, prejudice and prejudiced often precede against:

Lee County Circuit Judge Jacob Walker on Tuesday ruled that claims of juror misconduct by former House Speaker Mike Hubbard failed to show that the jury was prejudiced against Hubbard.
Mike Cason, AL.com, 19 Oct. 2016

Synonyms

Adjective

• biased
• one-sided
• parti pris
• partial
• partisan

Examples of prejudiced in a Sentence

Adjective

Most Americans deny being prejudiced against people of other races.

I was prejudiced against the movie because of its title.

Recent Examples on the Web

Adjective

America’s seeming inability to escape the pull of Vietnam’s symbolic weight shifts the focus away from the issues at hand by invoking the distant world of Vietnam-era America in which criticisms of misguided foreign military intervention or prejudiced domestic policies can be safely contained. — Made By History, Time, 30 Apr. 2025

The prejudiced perp took off on foot in an unknown direction. —Emma Seiwell, New York Daily News, 26 Apr. 2025

This feature empowers users to opt into generating free and fair content, minimizing prejudiced outcomes and promoting inclusivity. —Antara Dave, Forbes.com, 17 Apr. 2025

Although campuses witnessed a spike in antisemitic incidents after the Oct. 7, 2023 Hamas attack on Israel, people who attend universities are significantly less prejudiced against Jews than the overall population is. —Jonathan Zimmerman, New York Daily News, 14 Apr. 2025

Word History

First Known Use

Adjective

1579, in the meaning defined above

Rhymes for prejudiced

• unprejudiced

Legal Definition

prejudiced

adjective

prej·​u·​diced

ˈpre-jə-dəst

: resulting from or having a prejudice or bias for or especially against

alleged that the trial judge was prejudiced