| 单词 | prejudicial |
| 释义 | prejudicial (once / 3767 pages) 1adj 2adj If something is prejudicial, it's unfairly biased or damaging. If you've already decided that you don't like your new biology teacher before you've even met him, you're treating him in a prejudicial way. While prejudicial can be used as a synonym for prejudiced or biased, it's more commonly used to simply mean "damaging." A child's temper tantrum is prejudicial to the teacher's control of a preschool class. And a negative opinion piece in the newspaper about a local car dealer might be prejudicial to its business — in other words, it might hurt car sales. The Medieval Latin root is prejudicialis, "injurious." WORD FAMILYprejudicial: prejudicially+/prejudice: prejudiced, prejudices, prejudicial, prejudicing/prejudiced: unprejudiced/unprejudiced: unprejudicedly USAGE EXAMPLESPrejudicial surveillance of Muslim Americans has been found to increase negative mental health outcomes, particularly subclinical paranoia and anxiety. The Guardian(Nov 30, 2016) Subsequent generations followed the lead of the Founding Era’s leaders: They tolerated bigotry and prejudicial policies in order to promote white prosperity and security. Salon(Nov 25, 2016) The Supreme Court found that some evidence was submitted late, but that it was not prejudicial to the trial. Washington Times(Nov 16, 2016) 1 adj tending to favor preconceived ideas 2the presence of discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white population Syn prejudicious adj (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant Syn damaging, detrimental, prejudicious harmful causing or capable of causing harm |
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