| Main Entry: | preconceived notion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | idea held before an event |
Synonyms: |
assumption, preconceived idea, preconception, prejudgment, prejudice, presumption, something on the brain |
| Main Entry: | hunch |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | feeling, idea |
Synonyms: |
anticipation, apprehension, auguration, augury, boding, clue, expectation, feeling in one's bones, foreboding, forecast, foreknowledge, forewarning, forewisdom, funny feeling, glimmer, hint, impression, inkling, instinct, intuition, misgiving, notion, omination, portent, preapprehension, precognition, preconceived notion, premonition, prenotation, prenotice, presage, presagement, prescience, presentiment, qualm, suspicion, thought |
Antonyms: |
proof, reality, truth |
| Main Entry: | prejudice |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | belief without basis, information; intolerance |
Synonyms: |
ageism, animosity, antipathy, apartheid, aversion, bad opinion, bias, bigotry, chauvinism, contemptuousness, detriment, discrimination, disgust, dislike, displeasure, disrelish, enmity, foregone conclusion, illiberality, injustice, jaundiced eye, mindset, misjudgment, narrow-mindedness, one-sidedness, partiality, pique, preconceived notion, preconception, prejudgment, prepossession, racism, repugnance, revulsion, sexism, slant, spleen, tilt, twist, umbrage, unfairness, warp, xenophobia |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
Antonyms: |
fairness, justice, regard, respect, tolerance |
| Main Entry: | foregone conclusion |
| Part of Speech: | noun |
| Definition: | sure success |
Synonyms: |
cinch, matter of course, par for the course, preconceived notion, preconceived opinion, sure thing, sure-fire proposition |