prejudicial

pronunciation

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  • Adjective:
    (sometimes followed by `to') causing harm or injury

Word Origin

prejudicial (adj.)
early 15c., "causing prejudice;" 1530s, "full of prejudice," from prejudice (n.) + -al (1), or else from Middle French prejudicial and directly from Medieval Latin prejudicialis "injurious," from Latin praeiudicium.