PREJUDICED

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 Dictionary entry overview: What does prejudiced mean? 

• PREJUDICED (adjective)
  The adjective PREJUDICED has 2 senses:

1. emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices

2. being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand

  Familiarity information: PREJUDICED used as an adjective is rare.

 Dictionary entry details 

• PREJUDICED (adjective)

Sense 1

Meaning:

Emanating from a person's emotions and prejudices

Similar:

subjective (taking place within the mind and modified by individual bias)

Sense 2

Meaning:

Being biased or having a belief or attitude formed beforehand

Synonyms:

discriminatory; prejudiced

Context example:

a prejudiced judge

Similar:

homophobic (prejudiced against homosexual people)

jaundiced (showing or affected by prejudice or envy or distaste)

loaded ((of statements or questions) charged with associative significance and often meant to mislead or influence)

anti-Semite; antiblack; racist (discriminatory especially on the basis of race or religion)

sexist (discriminatory on the basis of sex (usually said of men's attitude toward women))

Antonym:

unprejudiced (free from undue bias or preconceived opinions)

 Context examples 

Of neither Darcy nor Wickham could she think without feeling she had been blind, partial, prejudiced, absurd.

(Pride and Prejudice, by Jane Austen)

If their praise is censure, your censure may be praise, for they are not more undiscerning, than you are prejudiced and unjust.

(Sense and Sensibility, by Jane Austen)

They are kind—they are the most excellent creatures in the world; but, unfortunately, they are prejudiced against me.

(Frankenstein, by Mary Wollstonecraft Shelley)

You must not think my visit all friendly and disinterested, Trotwood, for—I am afraid I may be cruelly prejudiced—I do not like to let papa go away alone, with him.

(David Copperfield, by Charles Dickens)

He stepped over and sat down beside me, and went on:—You are clever man, friend John; you reason well, and your wit is bold; but you are too prejudiced.

(Dracula, by Bram Stoker)

Mr. Rowland Rochester was not quite just to Mr. Edward; and perhaps he prejudiced his father against him.

(Jane Eyre, by Charlotte Brontë)

I suspect that in this comprehensive and (may I say) commonplace censure, you are not judging from yourself, but from prejudiced persons, whose opinions you have been in the habit of hearing.

(Mansfield Park, by Jane Austen)

Do you know the only value life has is what life puts upon itself? And it is of course over-estimated since it is of necessity prejudiced in its own favour.

(The Sea-Wolf, by Jack London)

I would have taken you into my confidence, Charles, had it not been that your suspicions had wounded me deeply—for I did not at that time understand how strong the reasons were which had prejudiced you against me.

(Rodney Stone, by Sir Arthur Conan Doyle)

“I will say no more about him,” cried Emma, “you turn every thing to evil. We are both prejudiced; you against, I for him; and we have no chance of agreeing till he is really here.”

(Emma, by Jane Austen)