prejudicial

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English

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Etymology

From Middle English prejudiceele, prejudicial, prejudiciall, prejudiciel, prejudiciell, prejudycyall, from Old French prejudicial, prejudiciel and Medieval Latin prēiūdiciālis.

Pronunciation

Adjective

prejudicial (comparative more prejudicial, superlative most prejudicial)

  1. Exhibiting prejudice or bias.
    Antonym: nonprejudicial
  2. Causing harm or injury; detrimental, harmful or injurious.
    Synonyms: see Thesaurus:harmful
    • 2011, Minette Walters, The Scold's Bridle:
      Were I to give you money, for whatever reason, it would be extremely prejudicial to your chances in court if you were unfortunate enough to appear there.
  3. (law) Tending to convince based on past history rather than on evidence about the case at hand.
    Antonym: probative
    • 1999, Dana Stabenow, Hunter's Moon, →ISBN, page 109:
      The judge had granted the DA a one-week extension with the caustic admonition that the case would be summarily dismissed if at that time probative, as opposed to prejudicial, evidence was not produced.

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Translations

Portuguese

Pronunciation

  • (Brazil) IPA(key): /pɾe.ʒu.d͡ʒi.siˈaw/ , (faster pronunciation) /pɾe.ʒu.d͡ʒiˈsjaw/
 

  • Hyphenation: pre‧ju‧di‧ci‧al

Adjective

prejudicial m or f (plural prejudiciais)

  1. harmful
    Synonyms: danoso, nocivo, daninho
  2. prejudicial

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Romanian

Etymology

Borrowed from French préjudiciel.

Adjective

prejudicial m or n (feminine singular prejudicială, masculine plural prejudiciali, feminine and neuter plural prejudiciale)

  1. prejudicial

Declension

Declension of prejudicial
singular plural
masculine neuter feminine masculine neuter feminine
nominative/
accusative 		indefinite prejudicial prejudicială prejudiciali prejudiciale
definite prejudicialul prejudiciala prejudicialii prejudicialele
genitive/
dative 		indefinite prejudicial prejudiciale prejudiciali prejudiciale
definite prejudicialului prejudicialei prejudicialilor prejudicialelor

Spanish

Etymology

From pre- +‎ judicial.

Pronunciation

  • IPA(key): (Spain) /pɾexudiˈθjal/
  • IPA(key): (Latin America) /pɾexudiˈsjal/
  • Rhymes: -al
  • Syllabification: pre‧ju‧di‧cial

Adjective

prejudicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural prejudiciales)

  1. prior to the administration of justice

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Further reading

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