Prejudicial

Definition

prejudice /'predʒɑdÇs/ n ~ (about/ against sb/ sth) (က) [U] အမွန္ကိုမစူးစမ္းဘဲ အဂတိတရားျဖင့္ မလိုမုန္းထားျခင္း။ မ်က္စိမိွတ္ ဘက္လိုက္ျခင္း။ ရမ္းဆ၍ ဆုပ္ကိုင္ထားေသာ အစြဲအလမ္း။ He was a tireless opponent of racial prejudice ❍ combat public ignorance and prejudice. (ခ) [C] အေျခအျမစ္မရိွေသာ အစြဲအလမ္း။ She came up against all the old prejudices about mixing a career with mother hood. ❍ The incident reinforced/ confirmed her prejudices. v ၁။ မလိုမုန္းထားမႈ၊ ဘက္လိုက္မႈ ျဖစ္ပြားေစသည္။ The jury were told that they must not allow their felling to prejudice them. ၂။ အက်ဳိးယုတ္ေလ်ာ့ ထိခိုက္နစ္နာေစသည္။ The judge said the chances of a fair trial had been prejudiced by the press coverage. ❏ prejudiced adj ~ (against/ in favour of sb/ sth) ( usu derog ) မလိုမုန္းထားစိတ္ အခံရိွေသာ (သို႔) ဘက္လိုက္ေသာ။ a wildly prejudiced view ❍ He went to the head teacher alleging that I was prejudiced against his daughter. ❍ The committee seemed to be prejudiced in favour of farmers' interests. ❏ prejudicial /predʒu'dÇʃl/ adj ~ (to sth) ( fml ) ထိခိုက္ နစ္နာေစေသာ။ developments prejudicial to the company's future. ❏ without prejudice (to sth) [ IDM ]( esp law ) ထိခိုက္ နစ္နာမႈမရိွေစဘဲ။ The firm agreed to pay compensation without prejudice (ie without admitting LIABILITY ၁).

Examples

1. The evils of prejudice
2. [prejudice against] : We’ve been working hard to overcome prejudice against women in politics.