prejudicial

prejudicial
    adj 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" [syn: {damaging}, {detrimental},
           {prejudicial}, {prejudicious}]
    2: tending to favor preconceived ideas; "the presence of
       discriminatory or prejudicial attitudes in the white
       population" [syn: {prejudicial}, {prejudicious}]
    

Prejudicial \Prej`u*di"cial\, a. [L. praejudicialis belonging to
   a preceding judgment: cf. F. pr['e]judiciel.]
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   1. Biased, possessed, or blinded by prejudices; as, to look
      with a prejudicial eye. [Obs.] --Holyday.
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   2. Tending to obstruct or impair; hurtful; injurious;
      disadvantageous; detrimental. --Hooker.
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            His going away . . . was most prejudicial and most
            ruinous to the king's affairs.        --Clarendon.
      [1913 Webster] -- {Prej`u*di"cial*ly}, adv. --
      {Prej`u*di"cial*ness}, n.
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61 Moby Thesaurus words for "prejudicial":
      bad, baleful, baneful, corroding, corrosive, corrupting,
      corruptive, counterproductive, damaging, deadly, deleterious,
      detrimental, differential, disadvantageous, discriminative,
      disserviceable, distressing, evil, forejudged, harmful, hurtful,
      inimical, injurious, judged beforehand, lethal, malefic,
      malevolent, malign, malignant, mischievous, noisome, noxious,
      ominous, pernicious, poisonous, preconceived, preconceptual,
      preconcluded, predecided, predetermined, predisposed,
      predispositional, prejudged, prejudging, presumed, presupposed,
      presurmised, scatheful, toxic, unadvantageous, unfavorable,
      unprofitable, unrewarding, useless, venenate, veneniferous,
      venenous, venomous, vicious, virulent, worthless