prejudicial

• POS: Adjective
• HYPHEN: prej=u=di=cial

CIDE DICTIONARY

prejudicial, a. [L. praejudicialis belonging to a preceding judgment: cf. F. préjudiciel.].

•  Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look with a prejudicial eye.  Holyday.  [1913 Webster]
•  Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious; disadvantageous; detrimental.  Hooker.  [1913 Webster]

  "His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most ruinous to the king's affairs."  [1913 Webster]

OXFORD DICTIONARY

prejudicial, adj. causing prejudice; detrimental.

Derivative

prejudicially adv.

Etymology

ME f. OF prejudiciel (as PREJUDICE)

THESAURUS

prejudicial

bad, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corrupting, corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious, detrimental, differential, disadvantageous, discriminative, disserviceable, distressing, evil, forejudged, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, judged beforehand, lethal, malefic, malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious, ominous, pernicious, poisonous, preconceived, preconceptual, preconcluded, predecided, predetermined, predisposed, predispositional, prejudged, prejudging, presumed, presupposed, presurmised, scatheful, toxic, unadvantageous, unfavorable, unprofitable, unrewarding, useless, venenate, veneniferous, venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless

ROGET THESAURUS

prejudicial

Badness

N badness, hurtfulness, virulence, evil doer, bane, plague spot, evil star, ill wind, hoodoo, Jonah, snake in the grass, skeleton in the closet, amari aliquid, thorn in the side, malignity, malevolence, tender mercies, ill-treatment, annoyance, molestation, abuse, oppression, persecution, outrage, misusage, injury, knockout drops, badness, peccancy, abomination, painfulness, pestilence, guilt, depravity, hurtful, harmful, scathful, baneful, baleful, injurious, deleterious, detrimental, noxious, pernicious, mischievous, full of mischief, mischief-making, malefic, malignant, nocuous, noisome, prejudicial, disserviceable, disadvantageous, wide-wasting, unlucky, sinister, obnoxious, untoward, disastrous, oppressive, burdensome, onerous, malign, corrupting &c (corrupt), virulent, venomous, envenomed, corrosive, poisonous, deadly, destructive, inauspicious, bad, ill, arrant, as bad as bad can be, dreadful, horrid, horrible, dire, rank, peccant, foul, fulsome, rotten, rotten at the core, vile, base, villainous, mean, injured, deteriorated, unsatisfactory, exceptionable indifferent, below par, illcontrived, ill-conditioned, wretched, sad, grievous, deplorable, lamentable, pitiful, pitiable, woeful, evil, wrong, depraved, shocking, reprehensible, hateful, hateful as a toad, abominable, detestable, execrable, cursed, accursed, confounded, damned, damnable, infernal, diabolic, unadvisable, unprofitable, incompetent, irremediable, badly, wrong, ill, to one's cost, where the shoe pinches, bad is the best: the worst come to the worst, herba mala presto cresco, wrongs unredressed or insults unavenged.