• IPA: /ˈpɹɛd͡ʒədɪs/

prejudice

1. (countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
   • 18, Thomas Babington Macaulay, chapter 7, in The History of England from the Accession of James the Second, volume (please specify ), London: Longman, Brown, Green, and Longmans, OCLC 1069526323 ↗:

2. (countable) Any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
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, The Faerie Qveene. […], London: Printed [by John Wolfe] for VVilliam Ponsonbie, OCLC 960102938 ↗, book II, canto IX:

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

5. (obsolete) Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
   • 1613, William Shakespeare; [John Fletcher], “The Famous History of the Life of King Henry the Eight”, in Mr. William Shakespeares Comedies, Histories, & Tragedies: Published According to the True Originall Copies (First Folio), London: Printed by Isaac Iaggard, and Ed[ward] Blount, published 1623, OCLC 606515358 ↗, [Act I, scene i]:

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

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

• prejudge
• prejudicate

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

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

• Portuguese: preconceito, intolerância

• French: préjudice
• Russian: вред

prejudice (prejudices, present participle prejudicing; 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