Prejudicial

Definition: Prejudicial

Prejudicial

Adjective

1. (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury; "damaging to career and reputation"; "the reporter's coverage resulted in prejudicial publicity for the defendant".

Date "prejudicial" was first used in popular English literature: sometime before 1588. (references)

Synonyms: Prejudicial

Synonyms: damaging (adj), detrimental (adj), prejudicious (adj). (additional references)

Context	Synonyms within Context (source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus).
Inexpedience	Adjective: 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.
Source: adapted from Roget's Thesaurus.

Crosswords: Prejudicial

English words defined with "prejudicial": damaging, detrimental ♦ prejudicious. (references)

Non-English Usage: "Prejudicial" is also a word in the following language with English translations in parentheses.

Portuguese (adverse, bad, baneful, deteriorative, detrimental, detrimentally, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, nocuous, pestiferous, prejudicial, ruinous, wrongful).

Domain	Title
Books	La cuestiâon prejudicial del artâiculo 177 TCE (reference) Las sentencias prejudiciales del Tribunal de Justicia de las comunidades europeas en los estados miembros : estudio de la interpretaciâon prejudicial y de su aplicaciâon por los jueces y magistrados nacionales (reference) Mediaciâon prejudicial y conciliaciâon : comentario de la ley 24,573 y su reglamentaciâon (reference) O "Caso Bosman" : intervenðcäao do tribunal de justiðca da Uniäao Europeia : o reenvio prejudicial (reference) O reenvio prejudicial perante o Tribunal de Justiðca das Comunidades Europeias (reference) (more book examples)
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Author	Quotation
Miguel de Cervantes	A private sin is not so prejudicial in this world as a public indecency.
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Author	Date	Quotation
Treaty of Versailles	1919	If on the application of that owner, the Mixed Arbitral Tribunal, provided for by Section VI of this Part, or an arbitrator appointed by that Tribunal is satisfied that the conditions of the sale or measures taken by the Government of the State in question outside its general legislation were unfairly prejudicial to the price obtained, they shall have discretion to award to the owner equitable compensation to be paid by that State. (reference)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Subject	Topic	Quote
Civil Liberties	India	Under the Passports Act, the Government may deny a passport to any applicant who "may or is likely to engage outside India in activities prejudicial to the sovereignty and integrity of India." The Government uses this provision to prohibit the foreign travel of some government critics, especially those advocating Sikh independence and members of the violent separatist movement in Jammu and Kashmir. (references)
	Singapore	They must renounce communism, sever all organizational ties with the CPM, and pledge not to engage in activities prejudicial to the State's internal security. (references)
	Singapore	The Government denies registration to groups that it believes are likely to have been formed to assemble for unlawful purposes or for purposes prejudicial to public peace, welfare, or public order. (references)
Human Rights	Malaysia	In 1998 the Government amended the Companies Act to grant the Registrar of Companies wide powers to block or disband organizations deemed prejudicial to national security or the national interest. (references)
	Macedonia	The Ombudsman is to be granted access to all official documents, the power to suspend execution of an administrative act if he determines that the act may be prejudicial to an individual's fundamental rights, and the right to challenge the constitutionality of laws; however, implementation of these provisions had not begun by year's end. (references)
	India	The Criminal Procedure Code provides for an open trial in most cases, but it allows exceptions in proceedings involving official secrets, trials in which statements prejudicial to the safety of the State might be made, or under provisions of special security legislation. (references)
Political Economy	CHILE	Another tax that has had the effect of discouraging U.S. exports was a prejudicial excise tax on distilled liquors that compete with domestically produced liquors. (references)
Women	Malaysia	Women's rights advocates assert that women still face discriminatory treatment in Islamic courts due to prejudicial interpretation of Islamic family law against women and to the lack of uniformity in the implementation of family laws among the various states. (references)
	Cameroon	Civil law theoretically provides equal status and rights for men and women; however, no legal definition of discrimination exists, and some points of civil law are prejudicial to women. (references)
Worker Rights	Guatemala	However, other changes in the Labor Code gave the President and his cabinet the power to suspend any strike deemed "gravely prejudicial to the country's essential activities and public services." Employers may suspend or fire workers for absence without leave if authorities have not recognized their strike as legal. (references)
	Yugoslavia	Employment Under labor law dating from before 1989, the minimum age for employment was 16. The October labor law sets the minimum age at 18 for any work likely to jeopardize the health, safety or morals of a young person, but permits children to work at 15, provided such work is not harmful and is not prejudicial to school attendance; however, in villages and farming communities younger children work to assist their families. (references)
	Bangladesh	The ILO has criticized the provisions of the Industrial Relations Ordinance that require three-quarters of a worker's organization to consent to a strike and that grant the Government authority to prohibit a strike at any time if it is considered prejudicial to the national interest or if it involves a public utility service. (references)
Source: compiled by the editor from ICON Group International, Inc.; see credits.

"Prejudicial" is generally used as an adjective (general or positive) -- approximately 100.00% of the time. "Prejudicial" is used about 133 times out of a sample of 100 million words spoken or written in English. Its rank is based on over 700,000 words used in the English language. Some parts-of-speech are not covered due to the samples used by the British National Corpus. (note: percents less than one-hundredth of one percent have been omitted)

Parts of Speech	Percent	Usage per 100 Million Words	Rank in English
Adjective (general or positive)	100%	133	27,614

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Language		Translations for "prejudicial"; alternative meanings/domain in parentheses.
Albanian		i dëmshëm (baneful, damnific, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, injurious, malefic, maleficent, malign, mischievous, nocent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, unwholesome). (various references)

Arabic		‏مؤذ (annoying, bad, baleful, damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, maleficent, malevolent, malign, mischievous, nasty, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, poisonous, unwholesome, verminous, wicked), ‏ضار (detrimental, felled, ferocious, fierce, hurtful, impish, injurious, malign, malignant, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pest, poisonous, predatory, rabid, rapacious, ravenous, savage, set, sharp, truculent, unhealthy, unwholesome, vicious). (various references)

Bulgarian		вреден (adverse, bad, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, ill, inimical, injurious, maleficent, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential), в ущърб. (various references)

Chinese		� 成偏见. (various references)

Czech		předpojatý (biased, biassed), škodlivý (bad, damaging, derogatory, detrimental, harmful, injurious, malign, nocent, noisome, noxious, obnoxious, pernicious). (various references)

Dutch		nadelig (adverse, detrimental, detrimentally, disadvantageous, disadvantageously, harmful, prejudicially). (various references)

Esperanto		malavantaĝa (detrimental, disadvantageous). (various references)

Farsi		تبعیض امیز. (various references)

French		préjudiciable, nuisible. (various references)

German		nachteilig (derogatory, detrimental, disadvantageous, disadvantageously, mischievous). (various references)

Greek		εκ προκαταλήψεωσ, επιζήμιοσ (damaging, detrimental, injurious, malign). (various references)

Hebrew		מזיק (detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, malign, mischievous, noxious, unwholesome), של �"ע�" ק�"ומ�", פו�'ע (derogatory, hurtful, injurious, invidious, scathing). (various references)

Hungarian		hátrányos (derogatory, detrimental, disadvantaged, disadvantageous, hurtful), sérelmes (damnific, derogatory, detrimental), elfogult vmivel szemben, előítéletet keltő. (various references)

Italian		pregiudizievole. (various references)

Korean		편파. (various references)

Manx		uailagh, lhiettrimagh (discriminating, hinder, lumbersome, obstructive), farvriwnyssagh (prejudiced). (various references)

Pig Latin		ejudicialpray

Portuguese		prejudicial (adverse, bad, baneful, deteriorative, detrimental, detrimentally, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, nocuous, pestiferous, ruinous, wrongful), pernicioso (baleful, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, malign, malignant, mischievous, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous), nocivo (adverse, bad, foul, hurtful, injurious, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pestiferous, pestilent, pestilential, wrongful). (various references)

Romanian		prejudiciabil (harmful), pãgubitor (derogatory, detrimental, harmful). (various references)

Russian		наносящий ущерб. (various references)

Serbo-Croatian		predrasudni, nauštrb, štetan (adverse, bad, baleful, baneful, damaging, deleterious, destructive, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, inimical, injurious, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome). (various references)

Spanish		perjudicial (damaging, deleterious, detrimental, harmful, hurtful, injurious, mischievous, prejudicious). (various references)

Swedish		skadlig (adverse, deleterious, derogatory, detrimental, evil, harmful, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malign, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential), menlig (adverse, detrimental, harmful). (various references)

Turkish		zararlı (baleful, baneful, corruptive, deleterious, derogatory, destructive, detrimental, evil, harmful, hurtful, ill, inimical, injurious, insalubrious, malefic, maleficent, mischievous, nocuous, noisome, noxious, pernicious, pestilent, pestilential, unhealthy, unwholesome), sakıncalı (disadvantageous, inconvenient, objectionable, unfavorable, unfavourable), önyargılı (biased, biassed, dyed in the wool, jaundiced, prejudiced, unenlightened). (various references)

Ukrainian		згубний (baneful, calamitous, damnatory, damnific, damning, deleterious, destructive, fatal, holocaustal, holocaustic, maleficent, malign, malignant, noxious, pernicious, pestiferous, pestilential, poisonous, prejudicious, ruinous, withering). (various references)

Vietnamese		gây thiệt hại (damaging), gây tổn hại (hurtful). (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various translation references.

Language	Period	Translations
Latin	500 BCE-Modern	adversarii, adversariis, adversario, adversariorum, adversarios, adversarium, adversarius. (various references)
Source: compiled by the editor from various references.

Derivations
	Words beginning with "prejudicial": prejudicially, prejudicialness, prejudicialnesses. (additional references)
Misspellings
	"Prejudicial" is suggested in spellcheckers for the following: prejudical. (additional references)
Source: compiled by the editor, based on several corpora (additional references).

# of Phoneme Matches	Pronunciation	Word(s) rhyming with "prejudicial" (pronounced pre'judu"shul)
3	-sh u l	antisocial, artificial, beneficial, biracial, bushel, commercial, confidential, controversial, crucial, essential, experiential, facial, financial, glacial, impartial, inertial, infomercial, initial, interprovincial, interracial, judicial, jurisprudential, Marshal, Marshall, martial, multiracial, noncommercial, noncontroversial, nonfinancial, nonracial, nonresidential, official, palatial, partial, Paschal, potential, prenuptial, provincial, quintessential, racial, sacrificial, social, spatial, special, superficial, uncontroversial, unofficial.
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Scrabble® Enable2K-Verified Anagrams
	Words within the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-j-l-p-r-u"
	-2 letters: juridical.
	-3 letters: auricled, epidural, judicial, peculiar, peridial, pulicide, ridicule.
	-4 letters: apiculi, auricle, caliper, clupeid, decrial, deliria, juicier, juridic, peculia, peracid, peridia, predial, radicel, radicle, replica, uredial.
	-5 letters: aculei, adipic, adjure, aliped, apercu, ariled, audile, aulder, caried, carped, carpel, caudle, cedula, clerid, cradle, craped, credal, culpae, curdle, curiae, curial, curled, derail, dialer, diaper, diapir, dicier.
	Words containing the letters "a-c-d-e-i-i-j-l-p-r-u"
	+2 letters: prejudicially.
	+4 letters: prejudicialness.
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