prejudicial
Causing unjust harm
Prejudicial means harmful to someone's interests or case, especially in legal contexts: The judge ruled the evidence prejudicial and excluded it.
Something prejudicial unfairly damages a position or biases perception.
The word overlaps with but is distinct from prejudiced—prejudicial describes the harmful effect of something, while prejudiced describes a person holding biased views.
Causing harm or damage
- damagingCausing loss or injury
- injuriousCausing physical harm
- adverseHarmful or opposed
- deleteriousCausing harm or damage
disadvantageous · ruinous · destructive · undermining · impairing · debilitating · pernicious · corrosive
Not allowed as evidence
- objectionableDeserving disapproval or protest
- inflammatoryTending to provoke outrage
- improperLacking in propriety
- taintedContaminated, made impure
reversible · mistrial · stricken · suppressed · excludable · undue · appealable · procedural
Stubbornly intolerant of others
- racistOne prejudiced by ethnicity
- sexistBiased based on gender
- ageistPrejudiced against older people
- intolerantRejecting differing beliefs
exclusionary · stereotyping · xenophobic · homophobic · ableist · classist · sectarian · segregationist
Unfair favor toward some
- preconceptionBelief formed beforehand
- predispositionInnate tendency toward something
- one-sidednessImbalanced viewpoint or treatment
- partisanshipLoyalty to one faction
prepossession · subjectivity · slant · favoritism · inclination · tendency · tilt · jaundiced
Not fair or right
- inequitableNot fair or impartial
- partialFavoring one side
- unwarrantedWithout adequate justification
- unmeritedNot rightfully due
wrongful · arbitrary · baseless · unfounded · groundless · unjustifiable · undeserved · unreasonable
detrimental
Causing harm or damage
deleterious · disadvantageous · ruinous · destructive · undermining · impairing · debilitating · pernicious · corrosive · compromising
inadmissible
Not allowed as evidence
- objectionableDeserving disapproval or protest
- inflammatoryTending to provoke outrage
- improperLacking in propriety
tainted · reversible · mistrial · stricken · suppressed · excludable · undue · appealable · procedural · evidentiary
bigoted
Stubbornly intolerant of others
intolerant · exclusionary · stereotyping · xenophobic · homophobic · ableist · classist · sectarian · segregationist · ethnocentric
partiality
Unfair favor toward some
- preconceptionBelief formed beforehand
- predispositionInnate tendency toward something
- one-sidednessImbalanced viewpoint or treatment
partisanship · prepossession · subjectivity · slant · favoritism · inclination · tendency · tilt · jaundiced · preconceived
unjust
Not fair or right
- inequitableNot fair or impartial
- partialFavoring one side
- unwarrantedWithout adequate justification
unmerited · wrongful · arbitrary · baseless · unfounded · groundless · unjustifiable · undeserved · unreasonable · disproportionate
- unfairnessunfair, unjust, biased, unequal, inequitable
- evidenceevidence, evidence bag, circumstantial evidence, proof, admissible
prejudicialbeneficial
Producing good results
advantageous · helpful · favorable · propitious · harmless