prejudicial

• prejudical, prejudicall (obsolete)

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

• Rhymes: -ɪʃəl

prejudicial (comparative more prejudicial, superlative most prejudicial)

1. Exhibiting prejudice or bias.

   Antonym: nonprejudicial

   • 1978 December 9, J. T. Harris, quotee, “Polaroid Gay Workers”, in Gay Community News, volume 6, number 20, page 2:

     I must believe that the absence of specific language in our Policy Book with respect to sexual preferences cannot be construed as encouragement to prejudicial behavior or treatment.

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.

prejudicial m or f (plural prejudiciais, reintegrationist norm)

1. reintegrationist spelling of prexudicial

• “prejudicial” in Dicionário Estraviz de galego (2014).

• Hyphenation: pre‧ju‧di‧ci‧al

prejudicial m or f (plural prejudiciais)

1. harmful

   Synonyms: danoso, nocivo, daninho

2. prejudicial

• prejudicialidade
• prejudicialmente

• “prejudicial” in Dicionário Aberto based on Novo Diccionário da Língua Portuguesa de Cândido de Figueiredo, 1913
• “prejudicial”, in Michaelis Dicionário Brasileiro da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), São Paulo: Editora Melhoramentos, 2015–2024
• “prejudicial”, in Dicionário Priberam da Língua Portuguesa (in Portuguese), Lisbon: Priberam, 2008–2024

Borrowed from French préjudiciel.

• IPA^(key): /pre.ʒu.di.t͡ʃiˈal/

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

1. prejudicial

• prejudicial in DEX online—Dicționare ale limbii române (Dictionaries of the Romanian language)

From pre- +‎ judicial.

• IPA^(key): (Spain) /pɾexudiˈθjal/ [pɾe.xu.ð̞iˈθjal]
• IPA^(key): (Latin America, Philippines) /pɾexudiˈsjal/ [pɾe.xu.ð̞iˈsjal]
• Rhymes: -al
• Syllabification: pre‧ju‧di‧cial

prejudicial m or f (masculine and feminine plural prejudiciales)

1. prior to the administration of justice

• perjudicial
• prejuiciado

• “prejudicial”, in Diccionario de la lengua española [Dictionary of the Spanish Language] (in Spanish), online version 23.7, Royal Spanish Academy [Spanish: Real Academia Española], 2023 November 28