3 definitions found From The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48 [gcide]: Prejudicial \Prej`u*di"cial\, a. [L. praejudicialis belonging to a preceding judgment: cf. F. pr['e]judiciel.] [1913 Webster] 1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] --Holyday. [1913 Webster] 2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental. --Hooker. [1913 Webster] His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs. --Clarendon. [1913 Webster] -- {Prej`u*di"cial*ly}, adv. -- {Prej`u*di"cial*ness}, n. [1913 Webster] From WordNet (r) 2.0 [wn]: prejudicial adj : (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}, {prejudicious}] From Moby Thesaurus II by Grady Ward, 1.0 [moby-thes]: 61 Moby Thesaurus words for "prejudicial": bad, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, differential, disadvantageous, discriminative, disserviceable, distressing, evil, forejudged, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, judged beforehand, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, preconceived, preconceptual, preconcluded, predecided, predetermined, predisposed, predispositional, prejudged, prejudging, presumed, presupposed, presurmised, scatheful, toxic, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unprofitable, unrewarding, useless, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless
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