Meanings
comparative more prejudicious · superlative most prejudicious
- rareActing with prejudice; having prejudice.
Seemingly, the reservoir of such thought and speculation could make an important resource for theorists committed to thinking about human lives otherwise than through the prejudicious gender reifications that are common in psychoanalysis as in other projects of modern philosophy and science.
2003, Eve Kosofsky Sedgwick, Adam Frank, Touching feeling: affect, pedagogy, performativity
Synonyms & antonyms
adjectivetending to favor preconceived ideas
adjective(sometimes followed by ‘to’) causing harm or injury
Synonym sets from Open English WordNet, CC BY 4.0.
Origin
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