prejudicious

prejudicious: adjective

1. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

- damaging to career and reputation

- the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant

• Syn: ↑damaging, ↑detrimental, ↑prejudicial

• Similar to: ↑harmful

• Derivationally related forms: ↑detriment (for: ↑detrimental)

2. tending to favor preconceived ideas

- the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population

• Syn: ↑prejudicial

• Pertains to noun: ↑prejudice, ↑prejudice (for: ↑prejudicial)

• Derivationally related forms: ↑prejudice, ↑prejudice (for: ↑prejudicial)

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prejudicious — prej·u·di·cious (prĕj ə dĭshʹəs) adj. Prejudicial. prej u·diʹcious·ly adv. * * * … Universalium
prejudicious — prej·u·di·cious … English syllables
damaging — adj. 1. causing harm or injury; as, damaging to career and reputation. Syn: detrimental, detrimental to(predicate), prejudicial, prejudicious. [WordNet 1.5] 2. designed or tending to discredit, especially without positive or helpful suggestions.… … The Collaborative International Dictionary of English
prejudiciously — See prejudicious. * * * … Universalium
deleterious — [adj] harmful, damaging bad, destroying, destructive, detrimental, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, pernicious, prejudicial, prejudicious, ruining, ruinous; concepts 537,570 Ant. aiding, assisting, helpful … New thesaurus
damaging — adjective 1. (sometimes followed by to ) causing harm or injury (Freq. 1) damaging to career and reputation the reporter s coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant • Syn: ↑detrimental, ↑prejudicial, ↑prejudicious … Useful english dictionary
prejudiciously — adverb see prejudicious … Useful english dictionary

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