From Middle English prejudice, from Old French prejudice, from Latin praeiūdicium, from prae- ("before") + iūdicium ("judgment").

• IPA: /ˈpɹɛd͡ʒədɪs/

prejudice

1. (countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
   • 1849–1861, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify |volume=I to V), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, →OCLC ↗:

     Though often misled by prejudice and passion, he was emphatically an honest man.

2. (countable) A preconception, any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.

   Morality is but a prejudice.

3. (countable) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.

   I am free of all prejudices. I hate everyone equally.

4. (obsolete) Knowledge formed in advance; foresight, presaging.
   • 1590, Edmund Spenser, “Book II, Canto IX”, in The Faerie Queene. […], London: […] [John Wolfe] for William Ponsonbie, →OCLC ↗:

     […] the first did in the forepart sit, / That nought mote hinder his quicke preiudize: / He had a sharpe foresight, and working wit […]

5. (chiefly, obsolete) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
   • 1702, John Locke, translated by W. Popple, A Letter concerning Toleration […]:

     for no injury is thereby done to any one, no prejudice to another man's goods

   • 1613 (date written), William Shakespeare, [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies […] (First Folio), London: […] Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, →OCLC ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

     England and France might, through their amity, / Breed him some prejudice.

   • a. 1662 (date written), Thomas Fuller, The History of the Worthies of England, London: […] J[ohn] G[rismond,] W[illiam] L[eybourne] and W[illiam] G[odbid], published 1662, →OCLC ↗:

     For Pens, so usefull for Scholars to note the remarkables they read, with an impression easily deleble without prejudice to the Book.

• misprejudiced
• prejudge
• prejudicate

• French: préjugé
• German: Vorurteil, Voreingenommenheit
• Italian: pregiudizio
• Portuguese: preconceito
• Russian: предубежде́ние
• Spanish: prejuicio

• French: préjugé, idée préconçue
• German: vorgefasste Meinung, Vorurteil
• Portuguese: prejulgamento, pressuposição, preconceito
• Russian: предубежде́ние
• Spanish: prejuicio

• German: Vorurteil
• Portuguese: preconceito, intolerância

• French: préjudice
• German: Schaden
• Portuguese: prejuízo
• Russian: вред

prejudice (prejudices, present participle prejudicing; simple past and past participle prejudiced)

1. (transitive) To have a negative impact on (someone's position, chances etc.).
2. (transitive) To cause prejudice in; to bias the mind of.

• prejudge
• prejudiced

• Portuguese: prejudicar
• Spanish: perjudicar

• Portuguese: prejudicar
• Spanish: prejuiciar

1. Misspelling of prejudiced