Synonyms for prejudice
Most common
bias preconception partiality partisanship injury harm bigotry
Synonyms by meaning
Noun
1. Bias
bias, preconception, partiality, partisanship, predisposition, favor US, favour UK, sway, warp, prepossession, tendentiousness, inclination, bent
2. Injury — mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment
injury, harm, disadvantage, detriment, hurt, damage, mischief, impairment, impair, scathe dated UK
3. Bigotry
bigotry, discrimination, intolerance, unfairness, inequality
Other
presumption, prejudgment US, prejudgement UK, jaundice, one-sidedness, ethnicism
Definitions
- n. 1
Mischief; hurt; damage; injury; detriment.
- n. 2
An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
- n. 3
A preconception, any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
Morality is but a prejudice.
Related words
- Word family
- prejudicious prejudge prejudiced
- Is a kind of
- anger fear hatred inclination partiality
Forms
- Plural
- prejudices → biases, preconceptions, partialities, partisanships…
Choose the right word
A prejudice or prepossession is grounded often on feeling, fancy, associations, etc. A prejudice against foreigners is very common in retired communities.
J. C. Fernald, English Synonyms and Antonyms (1914)
Example sentences
- bias She has a strong bias against abstract painting.
- partisanship No. It is not a matter of partisanship, it is a matter of America.
- preconception This will challenge any preconception you may have of modern art.
- harm This kind of magazine can do harm to young people.
- disadvantage His diligence turned out a disadvantage after all.
Popularity over time
| Word | 1850 → 2019 | Trend |
|---|---|---|
| prejudice | steady | |
| bias | rising | |
| partisanship | steady | |
| predisposition | rising | |
| preconception | rising | |
| harm | rising |
Use in printed books, per decade from 1850 to 2019.
By length
- 4 letters
- hurt1, harm1, bias2, bent1, sway1, warp1
- 5 letters
- favor2
- 6 letters
- damage2, injury3, favour2, impair2, scathe
- 7 letters
- bigotry3
- 8 letters
- mischief2, jaundice2
- 9 letters
- detriment3, ethnicism
- 10 letters
- inequality5, impairment3, unfairness3, partiality5
- 11 letters
- intolerance4, inclination4, presumption3, prejudgment3
- 12 letters
- disadvantage4, partisanship4, prejudgement
- 13 letters
- preconception4, prepossession
- 14 letters
- discrimination5, predisposition5
- 15 letters
- tendentiousness
The small number after each word is its number of syllables (bias2 = 2 syllables).
In other languages
- Français
- préjugé
- Italiano
- pregiudizio
- Español
- prejuicio
- Deutsch
- Vorurteil