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Definition of prejudicious in English: prejudiciousadjective prɛdʒʊˈdɪʃəs rare Harmful to someone or something; detrimental. the conclusions in the annual report of the commission are prejudicious Example sentencesExamples - Emotion, if it is excessive, can actually be prejudicious to reason and proper decisions and even impair our memory.
- Sleeping on a post would be a good deal more sensible, unless there's a nail in it, which might be prejudicious for the uniform.
- In a letter, the bishop of Arequipa referred to independence as "irrational, prejudicious, injurious, and criminal before God."
- The belief is widespread that uncleanness bears or contains some noxious power which is injurious to health and life and prejudicious to man's higher interests.
- The co-operation or even presence of diseased or infirm people is looked upon as prejudicious to the success of an undertaking.
Synonyms harmful, damaging, injurious, hurtful, inimical, deleterious, dangerous, destructive, ruinous, calamitous, disastrous, pernicious, environmentally unfriendly, ill, bad, evil, baleful, malign, corrupting, malignant, adverse, undesirable, prejudicial, unfavourable, unfortunate, counterproductive
Derivativesadverb rare There was no weapon possessed by organized labor that could successfully cope with the ‘power of this judge-made law’ which affected so prejudiciously the interests of the workers. Example sentencesExamples - Numerous human realities formed through human practice are often prejudiciously closed rather than open.
- The possibility that various groups of poverty children might have other linguistic styles is discounted by simply and prejudiciously considering such children to be linguistically immature.
OriginLate 16th century: from Latin praejudicium (see prejudice) + -ous. |