prejudgeverb [ T ]
uk/ˌpriːˈdʒʌdʒ/us/ˌpriːˈdʒʌdʒ/disapprovingto form an opinion about a situation or a person before knowing or considering all of the facts:
Let's not prejudge the situation - we need to hear both sides of the story first.
Thesaurus: synonyms and related words
Guessing, supposing and suspecting
- approximate
- as much idiom
- call
- conjecture
- consider
- deem
- divine
- fall
- hypothesize
- jump
- jump to conclusions idiom
- mark
- mark sb down as sth
- misjudge
- pluck
- presume
- smell
- speculate
- think
- think of sth/sb
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prejudgment
noun [ C or U ] uk/ˌpriːˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/us/ˌpriːˈdʒʌdʒ.mənt/also prejudgement
You shouldn't make any sort of prejudgment about her before you've met her.