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Wordnet 3.0

ADJECTIVE (2)

1. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury;
- Example: "damaging to career and reputation"
- Example: "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant"
[syn: damaging, detrimental, prejudicial, prejudicious]

2. tending to favor preconceived ideas;
- Example: "the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population"
[syn: prejudicial, prejudicious]



The Collaborative International Dictionary of English v.0.48:

Prejudicial \Prej`u*di"cial\, a. [L. praejudicialis belonging to
   a preceding judgment: cf. F. pr['e]judiciel.]
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   1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look
      with a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] --Holyday.
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   2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious;
      disadvantageous; detrimental. --Hooker.
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            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.
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WordNet (r) 3.0 (2006):

prejudicial
    adj 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, prejudicious]
    2: tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of
       discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white
       population" [syn: prejudicial, prejudicious]