(countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
Used in a Sentence
prejudices
Definitions, parts of speech, synonyms, and sentence examples for prejudices.
Editorial note
You should not treat it like a good article because it flatters your prejudices about new-fangled web development, because most of the content of the article is flattery.
Examples16
Definitions3
Parts of speech1
Quick take
(countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
Meaning at a glance
The clearest senses and uses of prejudices gathered in one view.
(countable) A preconception, any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
(countable) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.
Definitions
Core meanings and parts of speech for prejudices.
noun
(countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
noun
(countable) A preconception, any preconceived opinion or feeling, whether positive or negative.
noun
(countable) An irrational hostile attitude, fear or hatred towards a particular group, race or religion.
Example sentences
You should not treat it like a good article because it flatters your prejudices about new-fangled web development, because most of the content of the article is flattery.
Previously, prejudices were personalized and individualized; FHA exhorted segregation and enshrined it as public policy.
Such people are trying to answer an aggregate market question, with weakly-informed personal tech prejudices.
I'm Swiss and I have been working in the US for a few years and some prejudices resonate with me.
If you are willing to jettison contiguism and other morphological prejudices, this is not, I think, an intolerably weird perspective.
Part of internalizing foreign concepts is approaching them with minimal prior prejudices.
Nice how many off-handed insults you've managed to pack into such small space, based on no data at all except extrapolating from your own prejudices.
You will, we all will - our children will generally inherit our prejudices and politics.
That it's a product of backwards thinking and known prejudices.
I do assume, as a white male, that I would be approached by other males who would confide such prejudices in me.
You're projecting a bit of your own prejudices there.
It would leave a country with a financially more sophisticated public not even the chance of escaping from the consequences of the crude prejudices governing the decisions of the others.
Quote examples
As the title here points out, biases & prejudices seems like a nonsensical vocabulary to use when it is based on "facts." This is all tricky stuff.
I'm not praising the attitude your referring to, I'm criticizing your prejudices against the author, the baseless assumption that (s)he fits the label of "oblivious privileged SV tech nerd" you've decided to attribute.
"It came from a woman" is one of the most irrational reasons I can imagine, but such a person also probably applies countless prejudices with no basis.
"what 90% of the people think" I think a lot of people like to think that 90% of the population have the same rather twisted prejudices as them.
Frequently asked questions
Short answers drawn from the clearest meanings and examples for this word.
How do you use prejudices in a sentence?
You should not treat it like a good article because it flatters your prejudices about new-fangled web development, because most of the content of the article is flattery.
What does prejudices mean?
(countable) An adverse judgment or opinion formed beforehand or without knowledge of the facts.
What part of speech is prejudices?
prejudices is commonly used as noun.