prejudice
noun [C or U] /ˈpredʒ.ʊ.dɪs/Definition
B2 an unfair and unreasonable opinion or feeling, especially when formed without enough thought or knowledge: Laws against racial prejudice must be strictly enforced. [+ that] The campaign aims to dispel the prejudice that AIDS is confined to the homosexual community. He claims that prejudice against homosexuals would cease overnight if all the gay stars in the country were honest about their sexuality.Unfairness and favouring someone unfairlyJustice and fairness without prejudice to sth formal or legal › If a decision or action is made without prejudice to a right or claim, it is made without having an effect on that right or claim: My client accepts the formal apology without prejudice to any further legal action she may decide to take.Irrelevant
(Definition of prejudice noun from the Cambridge Advanced Learner's Dictionary & Thesaurus
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Synonyms and related words:
- a fifth/third wheel idiom
- be neither here nor there idiom
- be no object idiom
- beside preposition
- enter into sth phrasal verb
- extraneous adjective
- immaterial adjective
- irrelevance noun
- irrelevant adjective
- make no odds idiom
- moot adjective (LEGAL CASE)
- nothing pronoun
- out of the picture idiom
- point noun (IDEA EXPRESSED)
- red herring noun
- unconnected adjective
- unrelated adjective
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