prejudge
Decide before knowing
To prejudge is to form an opinion before having adequate information or experience: Don't prejudge the book by its cover.
The word implies premature judgment, often unfair—deciding guilt before trial, dismissing someone before meeting them.
Prejudice is the noun form, though prejudge emphasizes the act of judging rather than the resulting bias.
Accept without verification
- assumeAccept as true
- presupposeAssume beforehand as true
- preconceptionBelief formed beforehand
- predetermineDecide before the fact
jump to conclusions · hasty conclusion · foregone conclusion · predetermined · anticipate · expect · suppose · surmise
Classify too rigidly
- typecastRepeatedly assigned similar roles
- labelIdentifying attachment or marker
- categorizeAssign to distinct groups
- generalizeMake broadly applicable
profile · oversimplify · caricature · stigmatize · reduce · essentialize · homogenize · lump together
Unfair favor toward some
- predispositionInnate tendency toward something
- favoritismPreferential treatment of some
- one-sidednessImbalanced viewpoint or treatment
- unfairnessUnjust or biased treatment
partisanship · predilection · leaning · tendency · slant · tilt · discriminate · favor
Cancel as unrecoverable
- discountReduced price offered
- rule outEliminate as option
- close-mindedUnreceptive to differing views
- narrow-mindedIntolerant of differing views
presume
Accept without verification
- assumeAccept as true
- presupposeAssume beforehand as true
- preconceptionBelief formed beforehand
predetermine · jump to conclusions · hasty conclusion · foregone conclusion · predetermined · anticipate · expect · suppose · surmise · infer
pigeonhole
Classify too rigidly
- typecastRepeatedly assigned similar roles
- labelIdentifying attachment or marker
- categorizeAssign to distinct groups
generalize · profile · oversimplify · caricature · stigmatize · reduce · essentialize · homogenize · lump together · racial profiling
partiality
Unfair favor toward some
- predispositionInnate tendency toward something
- favoritismPreferential treatment of some
- one-sidednessImbalanced viewpoint or treatment
unfairness · partisanship · predilection · leaning · tendency · slant · tilt · discriminate · favor · disfavor
write off
Cancel as unrecoverable
- discountReduced price offered
- rule outEliminate as option
- close-mindedUnreceptive to differing views
- Assumptionsfalse assumption, stereotypes, generalizations, biases, prejudices
- judgmentscriticize, evaluate, assess, condemn, verdict
prejudgeweigh the evidence
deliberate · wait and see · hear out · evidence-based reasoning · due process
- Pride and PrejudiceRegency courtship novel
- social prejudiceUnfair attitudes toward groups
- racial prejudiceBias against ethnic groups
- extreme prejudiceEuphemism for killing
- without prejudiceFree from preconceived notions
- with prejudiceDismissal preventing refiling
prejudice, prejudged, prejudgment, prejudging, prejudges, prejudgement, prejudgements, prejudgments