| Main Entry: | prepossessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | made partial by initial impression |
Synonyms: |
biased, colored, inclined, jaundiced, one-sided, opinionated, partisan, predisposed, prejudiced, tendentious, unindifferent, warped |
Antonyms: |
total, whole |
| Main Entry: | bias |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | cause to favor |
Synonyms: |
distort, incline, influence, make partial, prejudice, prepossess, slant, sway, twist, warp, weight |
| Notes: | a person's bias is based on facts, but prejudice occurs without a person knowing or examining the facts |
Antonyms: |
be fair, be impartial, be just |
| Main Entry: | colored |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | distorted |
Synonyms: |
angled, biased, false, falsified, jaundiced, misrepresented, one-sided, partial, partisan, perverted, prejudiced, prepossessed, tampered with, tendentious, warped |
Antonyms: |
genuine, honest, real, truthful |
| Main Entry: | jaundiced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | tainted, prejudiced |
Synonyms: |
biased, bigoted, bitter, colored, cynical, disapproving, distorted, envious, grudging, hostile, intolerant, jealous, one-sided, opprobrious, partial, partisan, preconceived, prepossessed, resentful, skeptical, spiteful, suspicious, tendentious, unfair, unfriendly, unindifferent, warped, yellow |
Antonyms: |
clean, fresh, unbiased, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | obsessed |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | consumed, driven about belief, desire |
Synonyms: |
bedeviled, beset, bewitched, captivated, controlled, dogged, dominated, eat sleep and breathe, engrossed, fiendish, fixated, gripped, harassed, haunted, have on the brain, held, hooked, hung up on, immersed in, infatuated, into*, overpowered, plagued, possessed, preoccupied, prepossessed, really into, seized, taken over, tied up, tormented, troubled, turned on, up to here in, wound up with, wrapped up in |
Antonyms: |
indifferent, unconcerned |
| Main Entry: | partial |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | biased, prejudiced |
Synonyms: |
colored, discriminatory, disposed, favorably inclined, influenced, interested, jaundiced, minded, one-sided, partisan, predisposed, prepossessed, tendentious, unfair, unindifferent, unjust, warped |
Antonyms: |
fair, just, unbiased, unprejudiced |
| Main Entry: | partisan |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | interested, factional |
Synonyms: |
accessory, adhering, biased, bigoted, blind, cliquish, colored, conspiratorial, denominational, devoted, diehard, exclusive, fanatic, jaundiced, one-sided, overzealous, partial, prejudiced, prepossessed, sectarian, sympathetic, tendentious, unjust, unreasoning, warped, zealous |
Antonyms: |
disinterested |
| Main Entry: | prejudice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | influence another's beliefs without basis, information |
Synonyms: |
angle*, bend*, bias, blemish*, color*, damage, dispose, distort, harm, hinder, hurt, impair, incline, indoctrinate, injure, jaundice, mar, poison*, predispose, prejudge, prepossess, skew*, slant*, spoil, sway*, twist*, undermine, vitiate, warp |
Antonyms: |
approve, be fair, be just, regard, respect, tolerate |
| Main Entry: | prejudiced |
| Part of Speech: | adjective |
| Definition: | biased |
Synonyms: |
bigoted, blind, closed-minded, discriminatory, doctrinaire, dogmatic, extreme, hidebound, illiberal, inclined, influenced, intolerant, intransigent, leaning, narrow, narrow-minded, one-sided, opinionated, partisan, preconceived, predisposed, prepossessed, presupposing, racist, sexist, xenophobic |
Antonyms: |
generous, impartial, open-minded, receptive, unbiased |
| Main Entry: | jaundice |
| Part of Speech: | verb |
| Definition: | bias |
Synonyms: |
bent*, bigotry, chauvinism, disposition, favoritism, flash*, head-set, illiberality, inclination, intolerance, leaning, mind trip, mind-set, narrowmindedness, one-sidedness, penchant, preconception, predilection, predisposition, preference, prejudice, prepossess, prepossession, proclivity, proneness, propensity, spin, standpoint, tendency, tilt, turn, unfairness, viewpoint, warp |