| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. 1995. |
| |
prejudice |
| |
| NOUN: | 1. An inclination for or against that inhibits impartial judgment: bias, one-sidedness, partiality, partisanship, prepossession, tendentiousness. See AFFECT, LIKE, STRAIGHT. 2. Irrational suspicion or hatred of a particular group, race, or religion: bigotry, intolerance. See LIKE. | | VERB: | 1. To cause to have a prejudiced view: bias, jaundice, prepossess, warp. See AFFECT, STRAIGHT. 2. To spoil the soundness or perfection of: blemish, damage, detract from, disserve, flaw, harm, hurt, impair, injure, mar, tarnish, vitiate. See BETTER, HELP.
| | |
| |
| Roget’s II: The New Thesaurus, Third Edition. Copyright © 1995 by Houghton Mifflin Company. Published by the Houghton Mifflin Company. All rights reserved. |
|
|
